Low-Dose radiation causes leukemia.. I'm sorry. 20 year study. | |
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Waterbug (OP) User ID: 1295673 United States 11/08/2012 09:22 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Apparently, the Japanese are somewhat immune. Leukemia risk increased by low dose radiation: Chernobyl study [link to www.omglobe.com] [snip] 11/8/2012 A 20-year study following 110,645 workers who helped clean up after the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident in the former Soviet territory of Ukraine shows that the workers share a significant increased risk of developing leukemia. The results may help scientists better define cancer risk associated with low doses of radiation from medical diagnostic radiation procedures such as computed tomography scans and other sources. |
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BRIEF User ID: 381742 United States 11/08/2012 09:24 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | parasites in the presence of propyl alcohol in the body is what causes cancer...the different names are just for the different places it occurs in the body...radiation as with any carcinogen simply causes damage that allows the cancer to start... I never forgive and I never forget I am a licensed firearm holder. I will, under protection of law, use lethal force if attacked. |
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Waterbug (OP) User ID: 1295673 United States 11/08/2012 09:24 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [snip] Although an elevated radiation-related risk of leukemia was not surprising, given the level of exposure among many of these workers, what did surprise Zablotska and her colleagues was the elevated risk of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), which was similar in size to the risk estimated for non-CLL leukemia. |
Waterbug (OP) User ID: 1295673 United States 11/08/2012 09:26 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | parasites in the presence of propyl alcohol in the body is what causes cancer...the different names are just for the different places it occurs in the body...radiation as with any carcinogen simply causes damage that allows the cancer to start... Quoting: BRIEF Well... we have the radiation all around us, now. All kinds.. Guess we won't have to worry too long about over-population. |
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the mighty Atom User ID: 27087957 Japan 11/08/2012 09:26 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Waterbugs Source: Overall, there were 137 cases of leukemia among the workers over the 20-year span of the study, and 16 percent of those cancers were attributable to the Chernobyl radiation exposure, the team found Ca. two cases is something we can live with! G.Y.!B.E. |
Waterbug (OP) User ID: 1295673 United States 11/08/2012 09:28 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Low doses over a long period of time can do more damage than stronger doses over a short period of time because extended exposure gives no time to heal and recover. Quoting: The Light Under the Door Got a link? Low-dose radiation is considered to be harmless by many. Some even say it is healthy.. I'm not so sure. |
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Waterbug (OP) User ID: 1295673 United States 11/08/2012 09:36 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [snip] The new work helps to bridge this gap because the doses received by the Ukrainian cleanup workers falls somewhere in between the high level received by the Japanese atomic bomb victims and the lower levels received by people who undergo extensive medical scans. It also challenges the idea that chronic lymphocytic leukemia is not linked to radiation exposure – something that earlier studies of atomic bomb survivors had seemed to support. The genetic makeup of the Japanese population may have hidden any increased risk, Zablotska said, because they are much less likely to develop this type of cancer anyway. Chronic lymphocytic leukemia accounts for only 3 percent of all cases of leukemia in Japan – as opposed to about one-third of all leukemia cases in the U.S. and 40 percent of all cases of leukemia in Ukraine. |
the mighty Atom User ID: 27087957 Japan 11/08/2012 09:46 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Waterbugs Source: Quoting: the mighty Atom Overall, there were 137 cases of leukemia among the workers over the 20-year span of the study, and 16 percent of those cancers were attributable to the Chernobyl radiation exposure, the team found Ca. two cases is something we can live with! ? The new work is the largest and longest study to date involving Chernobyl cleanup workers who worked at or near the nuclear complex in the aftermath of the accident. Overall, there were 137 cases of leukemia among the workers over the 20-year span of the study, and 16 percent of those cancers were attributable to the Chernobyl radiation exposure, the team found. The findings shed light on the thorny issue of estimating cancer risk from low doses of radiation – an issue of importance to miners, nuclear workers and anyone who is chronically exposed to low levels of radiation at work or patients who receive sizeable radiation doses when undergoing medical diagnostic tests. “Low doses of radiation are important,” said the lead researcher Lydia Zablotska, MD, PhD, an associate professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at UCSF. “We want to raise awareness of that.” G.Y.!B.E. |
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