Radiation exposure from nuclear testing at Los Alamos did not prevent an individual from living into his 80s despite developing thyroid and prostate cancer.

“I had actually had a guy who was involved in nuclear testing at Los Alamos in the 1940s he's passed away now but I saw him in his 80s so this was in the early 2000s this was 60 years after that they had very little monitoring back then but he was close enough to feel the heat from a thermonuclear bomb and by the time I saw him he had had thyroid cancer as you would expect he'd had one or two lymphas i think I ended up treating his prostate so he'd had at least four or five different malignancies but the guy was as functional as most 80-year-olds are the guy was still walking and talking and doing just fine”