Meeting report: suggestions for studies on future health risks following the Fukushima accident

Environmental Health

Commentary

Pernille E Bidstrup¹  Hirooki Yabe²  Takashi Ishida²  Seiji Yasumura²  Masafumi Abe²  Tetsuo Ishikawa²  Shinichi Suzuki²  Hitoshi Ohto²  Tetsuya Ohira²  Shunichi Yamashita³  Joachim Schüz⁴  Sara J Schonfeld⁴  Ausrele Kesminiene⁴  Isabelle Deltour⁴  Isabelle Thierry-Chef⁴  Tomoko Inamasu⁵ 

[1] Psychological and Behavioral aspects of Life after Cancer, Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Strandboulevarden 49, 2100, København Ø, Denmark;Radiation Medical Science Center, Fukushima Medical University, 1 Hikarigaoka, 960-1295, Fukushima, Japan;Radiation Medical Science Center, Fukushima Medical University, 1 Hikarigaoka, 960-1295, Fukushima, Japan;Department of Radiation Medical Sciences, Atomic Bomb Disease Institute, Nagasaki University, 1-12-4 Sakamoto, 852-8523, Nagasaki, Japan;Section of Environment and Radiation, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Cedex 08, 150 cours Albert Thomas, 69372, Lyon, France;Section of Environment and Radiation, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Cedex 08, 150 cours Albert Thomas, 69372, Lyon, France;Radiation Medical Science Center, Fukushima Medical University, 1 Hikarigaoka, 960-1295, Fukushima, Japan;

关键词: Fukushima;    Radiation;    Thyroid screening;    Dosimetry;    Mental health;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s12940-015-0013-z

 received in 2014-11-07, accepted in 2015-03-03,  发布年份 2015

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

In October 2013, the Radiation Medical Science Center of the Fukushima Medical University and the Section of Environment and Radiation of the International Agency for Research on Cancer held a joint workshop in Fukushima, Japan to discuss opportunities and challenges for long-term studies of the health effects following the March 2011 Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Accident. This report describes four key areas of discussion -- thyroid screening, dosimetry, mental health, and non-radiation risk factors -- and summarizes recommendations resulting from the workshop. Four recommendations given at the workshop were to: 1) build-up a population-based cancer registry for long-term monitoring of the cancer burden in the prefecture; 2) enable future linkage of data from the various independent activities, particularly those related to dose reconstruction and health status ascertainment; 3) establish long-term observational studies with repeated measurements of lifestyle and behavioural factors to disentangle radiation and non-radiation factors; and 4) implement primary prevention strategies targeted for populations affected by natural disasters, including measures to better understand and address health risk concerns in the affected population. The workshop concluded that coordinated data collection between researchers from different institutes and disciplines can both reduce the burden on the population and facilitate efforts to examine the inter-relationships between the many factors at play.

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