Dr. Masao Tomonaga

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And MDS is also a lethal disease because after four or five years of mild clinical course, many MDS patients develop

acute leukemia, and finally die.

The treatment is very inactive.

So we must say leukemia and other cancers related to radiation are a lifelong effect of atomic bombing.

Very long-term.

No one, no one.

Actually, we didn't at all.

Yeah.

Yeah, severe burns was most popular injury given by atomic bomb heat rays.

Those who died of severe burn, the number was the greatest among early deaths of evacuees.

Yeah, we doctors responsible for hibakusha care began to see many hibakushas who are exposed to high-dose drugs.

radiation began to complain every year during the atomic bomb season.

That starts about June, July, August.

They often complain of sleeplessness, anxiety, and the flashback of atomic bomb experience.

And their psychological condition deteriorates remarkably.

So we performed 8,000 large-scale psychological examinations by using WHO questionnaires, which is a powerful scoring methodology.

12 is the highest scores.

So we found within 1.5 kilometers from the ground zero,

Almost all survivors showed very high score, over 10 to 12.

So this was our surprise.

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