About the Authors

Yoshinobu Sato

Affiliations Department of Global Health, Medicine, and Welfare, Atomic Bomb Disease Institute, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan, Fukushima Medical University Hospital, Fukushima, Japan

Naomi Hayashida

Affiliation Department of Global Health, Medicine, and Welfare, Atomic Bomb Disease Institute, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan

Makiko Orita

Affiliations Department of Global Health, Medicine, and Welfare, Atomic Bomb Disease Institute, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan, Department of Nursing, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan

Hideko Urata

Affiliation Department of Nursing, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan

Tetsuko Shinkawa

Affiliation Department of Nursing, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan

Yoshiko Fukushima

Affiliation Hirosaki University School of Health Sciences, Hirosaki, Japan

Yumiko Nakashima

Affiliation Fukushima Medical University Hospital, Fukushima, Japan

Takashi Kudo

Affiliation Department of Radioisotope Medicine, Atomic Bomb Disease Institute, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan

Shunichi Yamashita

Affiliation Department of Radiation Medical Sciences, Atomic Bomb Disease Institute, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan

Noboru Takamura

takamura@nagasaki-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Global Health, Medicine, and Welfare, Atomic Bomb Disease Institute, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YS NH MO TK NT. Performed the experiments: YS HU TS YF YN. Analyzed the data: YS NH MO NT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YS NT. Wrote the paper: YS NH MO TK SY NT.