Re: radiation is radiation?

["ruth_weiner" <ruth_weiner@email.msn.com>]

Bob's first question raises an interesting point (especially for me since my
father was an early user of I-131 as a diagnostic tool).  Have there been
any epidemiological studies of cancer in patients in whom I-131 was used
diagnostically?  Similarly, have there been studies on patients who have had
bone scans with Tc-99?

Always do right.  It will please some and astonish the rest -- Mark Twain
Ruth Weiner
ruth_weiner@msn.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Flood <bflood@SLAC.Stanford.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
Date: Wednesday, May 10, 2000 4:38 PM
Subject: Re: radiation is radiation?


>>Norm is coming from a perspective that the short 1/2 life products are
>>the demons - especially I-131 since it insidiously hides away in the
>>thyroid and he has been given to believe that the thyroid is
>>particularly radio sensitive and that I-131 and most other short 1/2
>>lived isotopes are not found in nature.
>
>An interesting point that can be subjected to the same kind of sanity check
>as we've seen in other posts. That "deadly" I-131 secretively released from
>nuclear plants and causing so much harm and unhappiness is the same stuff
>that hospitals have been using for thyroid uptake studies on countless
>people for years. If it's as harmful as the anti's claim, where is the
>enormous outbreak of thyroid cancer it should have caused? It would most
>certainly be far to big to hide.
>
>Like I've said before, we keep talking about science and they keep talking
>about religion. The TF Project people are just as certain that every
>photon's a killer as those people in Salem were about those women being
>witches. And just like the people of Salem who kept on believing those
women
>were witches AFTER the young women who accused them recanted her testimony
>and admitted she made it all up, the TF Project people aren't going to let
>any obvious facts get in their way either. To paraphrase, "it's not about
>trust, it's about faith!" And those who do not believe can expect to be
>treated like blasphemers.
>============================
>Bob Flood
>Dosimetry Group Leader
>Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
>bflood@slac.stanford.edu
>
>
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