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RE: Cancer clusters clarification please
Some good information on leukemia can be found at
http://www.cancer.gov/cancer_information/cancer_type/leukemia/ Apparently
formaldehyde has been implicated if you are an embalmer or anatomist.
-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
3050 Traymore Lane
Bowie, MD 20715-2024
E-mail: jenday1@email.msn.com (H)
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
3050 Traymore Lane
Bowie, MD 20715-2024
E-mail: jenday1@email.msn.com (H)
-----Original Message-----
From: Dukelow, James S Jr [mailto:jim.dukelow@PNL.GOV]
Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 4:10 PM
To: 'Kai Kaletsch'; RadSafe
Subject: RE: Cancer clusters clarification please
. . .
There was a time, not too long ago, when ideas of viral (and bacterial)
causation of cancer were out of fashion, but that time is past. It is
well-recognized that Hepatitis C causes some liver cancers, human
papillomavirus causes some cervical cancers, and helicobacter pylori is the
probable cause of some stomach cancers. There are lots of other candidates.
Recognition of virally-caused animal tumors goes back about 80 years.
It seems like the idea of infectious causation of leukemia is catching on in
the press and among laymen.
. . .
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