Strange Glow: The Story of Radiation, by Timothy J. Jorgensen

Dear Professor Joyner, I would like to comment on your line: "Of these, 16,000 were thyroid cancer, which by implication we don’t need to worry too much about, as two-thirds will be cured." I'm one of those in the one third that still has thyroid cancer, have been having it for 10 years actually this year. It also gave me leukemia, because of the radioactive iodine treatment they used, and I had another surgery 3 years ago, because of another nodule in my neck, I won't have more RAI, because it's seemingly not killing off the microcopically small thyroid cancer still somewhere in my body, and I hope one day the leukaemia will be killed off, because the medication they have now, well it keeps you alive, and I'm very thankful for that, but the side-effects are not that easy to live with. I'm just trying to say, thyroid cancer usually can be suppressed, but it can always come back, so there is no cure, they can do surgery and give you RAI, and if they can't suppress it, you will be one of the 1/3 that we DO have to worry about. And you get the extra bonus of other cancers. But let's not worry about that.... Thank you for your time. Hannah.