AML - Lessons from History
Leukemia affects all sections of the global society, nevertheless, it is found to be significantly high in those who have been exposed to high intensity radiation at a very young age as in the case of the A-bomb survivors in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The incidence of leukemia in the high risk areas reached a crescendo in the 1950’s.
Sadako Sasaki, a student belonging to Noborimachi junior high school, developed leukemia suddenly and passed away at the age of 12 on 25 th October, 1955, in the Hiroshima Red Cross Hospital. Her classmates raised a monument called the "Children's Peace Monument" for Sadako and for all children who were victims of the A-bomb.
