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Comment
. 2023 Feb 17;22(1):17.
doi: 10.1186/s12940-023-00966-z.

Response to Tsuda et al. "demonstrating the undermining of science and health policy after the Fukushima nuclear accident by applying the toolkit for detecting misused epidemiological methods"

Enora Cléro  1 , Claire Demoury  2 , Bernd Grosche  3 , Liudmila Liutsko  4   5   6   7 , Yvon Motreff  8 , Takashi Ohba  9 , Deborah Oughton  10 , Philippe Pirard  8 , Agnès Rogel  8 , Thierry Schneider  11 , An Van Nieuwenhuyse  12   13 , Dominique Laurier  1 , Elisabeth Cardis  14   15   16
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Comment

Response to Tsuda et al. "demonstrating the undermining of science and health policy after the Fukushima nuclear accident by applying the toolkit for detecting misused epidemiological methods"

Enora Cléro et al. Environ Health. .

Abstract

Background: The SHAMISEN (Nuclear Emergency Situations - Improvement of Medical And Health Surveillance) European project was conducted in 2015-2017 to review the lessons learned from the experience of past nuclear accidents and develop recommendations for preparedness and health surveillance of populations affected by a nuclear accident. Using a toolkit approach, Tsuda et al. recently published a critical review of the article by Cléro et al. derived from the SHAMISEN project on thyroid cancer screening after nuclear accident.

Main body: We address the main points of criticism of our publication on the SHAMISEN European project.

Conclusion: We disagree with some of the arguments and criticisms mentioned by Tsuda et al. We continue to support the conclusions and recommendations of the SHAMISEN consortium, including the recommendation not to launch a mass thyroid cancer screening after a nuclear accident, but rather to make it available (with appropriate information counselling) to those who request it.

Keywords: Epidemiological methods; Nuclear accident; Overdiagnosis; Screening; Thyroid cancer.

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