17. My entire family has thyroid issues and we are "downwinders"
The scary thing about thyroid damage (not just cancer but damage which causes hypothyroidism" is that it damages the endocrine system, causing hormonal problems, auto-immune and immuno-deficiency etc which can lead to more disease as well as depression and other problems.
The thyroid absorbs the radio-iodine (iodine is essential for thyroid function) which then mutates the thyroid hormone producing cells or destroys them (like needles pricking a baloon when they decay) and change the dna.
It is a serious problem.
More info can be found at
www.radiation.org where Mangano (author of the study in the OP) is a featured epidemiologist with a Masters in Public Health.
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