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> and long enough interval to start doubting a direct causality between the irradiation and the cancer

A report from Los Alamos Scientific Lab (1979) draws the same conclusion:

For example, a brother of [Hemmerly] also died of leukemia (and three other siblings are believed to have had cancer). This makes it likely there is a familial component to the development of the disease.

https://www.orau.org/ptp/pdf/accidentsurvivorslanl.pdf



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