Cancer risk 70% higher for females in Fukushima area, says WHO

[Yo_Mama]

10. But the total expected increased risk is less

than quite a few people in the US get from Xrays:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/26/health/26brody.html?_r=0

Dr. Oz warned that people who have more than five X-rays a year have a fourfold greater risk of developing this cancer, and recommended the use of a lead thyroid shield when getting dental X-rays or mammograms.

Proportionately speaking, the WHO report projects increased rates (using a high-bound method) which are probably going to be hard to find statistically.

Japan was lucky. The vast majority of the released radiation blew out to sea, and the significantly contaminated areas are small. And the WHO report agrees very well with Chernobyl data - which is not speculative. For the Chernobyl-exposed at rates such as those in most of Fukushima, any increased rates of cancer have been very small.

Still, I expect that the increased risk is there, because I think there are higher individual rates of exposure from natural environmental concentrations. But you won't see it in the data.