[ RadSafe ] Leukemias and Chernobyl + European Journal...

[Busby Chris]

Dear Dan

I am not disagreeing with Otto's remark. About thyroid cancer. I am saying it is irrelevant to the question of the infant leukemias which were picked up in other countries. (Germany, Greece, USA etc)
It is hardly credible that the  2 year aggregated trend in Scotland and Wales, for example can go from 1975 to 1994:  4,5,2,5,4,3,14,6,6,5 (14 in 1987,88)as a result of increased surveillance.
The dose in Scotland and Wales was about 100uSv
This was published in Energy nad Environment in 2000 by me. The data from other publications in BMJ and Nature and various other rags.


Chris


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Dear Chris:

Otto's remark is not only correct, but the epidemiological studies underway
at the time of the 10th anniversary meetings in Minsk and Vienna (IAEA) also
demonstrated this trend and estimated cure rate.

Dan ii

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Not relevant
Chris


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Sent: Fri 22/04/2011 23:49
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>On 4/21/2011 1:48 PM, Howard wrote:
>>Indeed, more thyroid cancers were found in children after Chernobyl 
>>exposure - but the degree of malignancy noted was less and the 
>>death rate was unchanged, suggesting that milder malignancies were 
>>counted that would not have been included in the "controls".
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Although the increase thyroid cancer from childhood exposure to I-131 
was readily detected, the cure rate is about 95% so that the death 
rate is much smaller. I think the info is in "Health Effects of the 
Chernobyl Accident and Special Health Care Programmes", World Health 
Organization, Geneva, 2006.

Otto

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