A way to prove Fukushima radiation-cancer link in court
DNA Evidence Can Now Prove Link Between Cancers And Fukushima Radiation, What if there were a way to establish a direct and provable in court link between cancer and Fukushima radiation? ……
Hess, J. et al Gain of chromosome band 7q11 in papillary thyroid carcinomas of young patients is associated with exposure to low-dose irradiation. Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences USA (PNAS); Link to publication
“Scientists have been able to discriminate between the cancers caused by the radioactive contamination and those that arise naturally. Prof. Zitzelsberger ascribes the success of this study to the careful collection, documentation and storage of thyroid cancers from the Chernobyl region in the Chernobyl Tissue Bank. He noted that this unique collection of materials made it possible for the team to compare for the first time tumours from children of the same age and regional background.
Gain of chromosome band 7q11 in papillary thyroid carcinomas of young patients is associated with exposure to low-dose irradiation
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2011/05/18/1017137108.abstract
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2011/05/18/1017137108.abstract
This DNA marker is quite possibly the nuclear industry’s worst nightmare. Any medical professional or lawyer team around the world can now order a DNA test and have the cancer tissue analyzed to see if it was caused by Fukushima or Chernobyl, or Santa Susana, or Three Mile Island radioactive elements, each of which have a unique ‘signature’, just like people have fingerprints. ……
Since the nuclear industry in many countries has a legal immunity from lawsuits, a recent class action to try and get this changed may open things up on a larger front. Wouldn’t you agree that a company that can harm or kill millions of people should not be immune from lawsuits?
via MamaBears AgainstNukes “The lawyers for the 1.415 plaintiffs stated that they have filed a lawsuit at the Tokyo District Court, describing the case as a landmark challenge to nuclear power plant manufacturers immunity from liability in nuclear accidents.”
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This would be a huge advance. Like the asbestos industry before it, the nuclear industry has got away with murder because there was no way of connecting effect and cause. And like the asbestos industry the nuclear industry has spent large sums of money (including here in SA) to demonstrate that ionising radiation is good for you. The former head of the SA Government Radiation Protection Committee (aptly named because it was 90% nuclear industry members who were keen to protect their jobs) was a great believer in this theory.
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