Dr. Masao Tomonaga
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first heard Aug 2026
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And later, my father found among children, acute leukemia case started to increase.
So the leukemia was due to the radiation?
Yeah, this was actually due to radiation because the distance from the ground zero, this distance, shorter the distance, the increased incidence of acute leukemia among citizens was increased.
We call it dose-dependent.
Dependency was clearly shown.
Correct, correct.
That was happening also in Hiroshima City simultaneously, as if there were two experiments of massive radiation on citizens.
My family was actually from my grand-grandfather, all doctors.
So I was grown up surrounding doctors.
So it was my natural place.
will to become a doctor.
And more than that, when I became high school boy, I must prepare for examination in medical school.
My knowledge about atomic bomb-induced leukemia was increased, so I have a fear I should be also becoming a leukemia patient.
So I finally decided to go to medical school to learn why leukemia was induced by radiation, atomic bomb radiation.
Yeah.
When I become a doctor and I decided to enter hematology to study and treat leukemia patients as a hibakusha care doctor.
Yeah.
So this continued over entire my life.
because the diseases which developed from atomic bomb survivors continued even now, even now.
Yeah.
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