「ほとんどの知り合いは、ガンで死んだよ」
As for the atomic cameramen, there aren’t that many left. “Quite a few have died from cancer,” George Yoshitake, 82, one of the survivors, said of his peers in an interview. “No doubt it was related to the testing.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/14/science/14atom.html?_r=1