Cancer Rates Spiked After Fukushima. But Don’t Blame Radiation – Wired

Read article -  H. Gilbert Welch, professor of medicine, community and family medicine, and of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, is quoted about how turtles are part of what he calls the barnyard pen of cancers. The barnyard has three animals, turtles, birds, and rabbits. You can't fence in the birds. They're the super aggressive lethal cancers that are beyond cure. The rabbits you can do something about if you can spot them and treat them. "But for the turtles," he says, "you don't need fences because they're not going anywhere anyway. And the thyroid is full of turtles."