Interview with Dr. Ritsuko Komaki, a U.S. radiation oncologist who was raised in Hiroshima

[Emily]

http://www.medpagetoday.com/Blogs/25409

From Hiroshima to Fukushima
By: Kristina Fiore - March 18, 2011
Dr. Ritsuko Komaki knows a thing or two about radiation, and not just because she is a radiation oncologist at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. Her family comes from Hiroshima, and a dozen of her relatives perished in that Aug. 6, 1945 attack. Many others suffered subsequent health problems.

On Friday, March 11, Komaki was flying to Japan when the earthquake struck, having been scheduled to give talks on targeted radiation therapy in Tokyo...

 

[sharon sanders]

Re: Interview with Dr. Ritsuko Komaki, a U.S. radiation oncologist who was raised in Hiroshima

Thank you Emily.

Dr. Komaki recommends that people who live within 30 miles of Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant evacuate and not come back for a "long time" - maybe 5 - 20 years. She says that people who returned to Hiroshima after World War II experienced high rates of cancer.