thyroid cancer
A new University of California, Los Angeles study has found that in parts of California the rate of thyroid cancer patients with an advanced stage of the disease is well above the national average, prompting research into possible links to farming or radiation.

According to the study, 35 percent of Californians with thyroid cancer were not diagnosed until the disease had already spread to lymph nodes or other parts of the body, compared with 29 percent of people nationwide.

Dr. Avital Harari, a member of UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center and lead researcher on the study, said there was no geographic pattern to the California counties with the highest percentage of people with advanced thyroid cancer, prompting her to consider possible environmental factors.

"There's definitely something going on here, but we're not sure what explains it," Harari said. "To find the etiology of why its happening we need more research."


Comment: One reason for the skyrocketing rates of thyroid cancer in California that is being hidden from the public is that radiation from Fukushima is impacting the entire U.S West Coast. While authorities have been saying that these levels of radiation are 'well below the limits of concern', there are ongoing effects that scientists, with the collusion of the mainstream press, are desperate to sweep under the rug.

Harari said she was just beginning a second study that would examine potential links to farming, pesticides or radiation. Other studies have previously found some pesticides to be endocrine disruptors, she said, but none have established a link to cancer.

She said the counties with higher rates of advanced thyroid cancer could not be fully explained by socioeconomic factors or ethnicity, which are also known risk factors for advanced thyroid cancer.

The incidence of thyroid cancer has risen significantly over the past 30 years for reasons that are have not been fully explained.


Comment:

Iodine deficiency linked to thyroid and breast cancer, fibrocystic breast disease, infertility, obesity, mental retardation & halide toxemia

The significant increase in thyroid cancer is linked to a severe iodine deficiency in the general population. Over the last 30 years iodine intake has declined 50% because it has been removed from the food supply, while the ingestion of toxic competing halogens (bromine, fluorine, chlorine, perchlorate) has dramatically increased in food, water, medicines and the environment. Simultaneously there has been a related increase in the rates of thyroid disease, breast cancer, fibrocystic breast disease, prostate cancer, obesity and developmental delays and mental retardation in children.


More than 60,000 people in the United States are diagnosed with thyroid cancer annually, most of them women between the ages of 40 and 60. The disease is treatable when detected early, but survival rates are much lower when it is found in advances stages.