Re: First Radiation Victim?

["Bjorn Cedervall" <bcradsafers@HOTMAIL.COM>]

A report from 1911 by O. Hesse attributes 94 cases of skin cancer to 

radiation (among physicians, X-ray technicians and radium handlers in 

"America", England and Germany). For leukemia a clustering of five cases 

among pioneer radiation workers was reported in 1911 by von Jagie et al. If 

I recall Grubbé (spelling?) correctly - one of the few early radiation 

victims who survived for many decades - there were many serious burns among 

the early radiation workers.



>From these pieces of information a preliminary guess for the year of the 

first reported radiation induced cancer would be somewhere around 1905 or 

even earlier.



Bjorn Cedervall  bcradsafers@hotmail.com





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