High incidence of meningioma among Hiroshima atomic bomb survivors.

Mortality statistics of major causes of death among atomic bomb survivors in Hiroshima Prefecture from 1968 to 1982.

A comparative study was made on mortality during a 15-year period from 1968 to 1982 between atomic bomb survivors resident in Hiroshima Prefecture and non-exposed controls. The mortality rate for all causes of death was lower in atomic bomb survivors than in the non-exposed, but the rate was higher among those directly exposed within about 1 km than in the non-exposed. The mortality rate for ma...

Parathyroid tumors in atomic bomb survivors in Hiroshima: first report of surgical cases, 1956-1988.

Seventeen patients with parathyroid gland tumors underwent surgical resection at the Hiroshima University Hospital between 1956 and 1988. Three of them where born after the atomic bomb explosion, and 6 of the remaining 14 patients (42.9% of the total- a high proportion) were atomic bomb survivors. Because parathyroid gland tumors and hyperparathyroidism are assumed to develop in patients who ha...

A Review of Forty-Five Years Study of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Survivors II. BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS Multiple Myeloma among Atomic Bomb Survivors

Mortality of A-bomb Survivors in Nagasaki and Hiroshima

INTRODUCTION In 1945, two atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki for the first time in human history. Since 1945, many studies (1,2,3,4) have been performed on the effects of the atomic bomb radiation, for example, the physical damage and medical studies of the atomic bomb survivors and so on. In 1972, the Scientific Data Center for the Atomic Bomb Disaster (renamed as the Division...

Leukemia in Hiroshima atomic bomb survivors.

A CAUSAL RELATION between radiation and leukemia has been well demonstrated.112 The reported cases of leukemia in people exposed to radium, 1.’I 4 1 occupational x-ray,’ I therapeutic x-ray to the thyroid region in childhood’92#{176} and possibly in utero diagnostic x-ray,2’ have been few in number. Estimates of the increased risk associated with exposure of man to radiation depend heavily upon...