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John:
I am well aware of the posting you cite from the NCI supposedly offering an impartial summary of present knowledge about NRI health effects. Unfortunately, the NCI summary posting is little more than what I'd characterize as agenda science in action in that it relies on partial, and in many cases inaccurate, consideration of the research studies cited by the NCI. In a number of cases the NCI stresses reliance only on study abstracts which are word-engineered, incomplete vs. acutal study results, and sometimes completely deceitful. While the NRI health effect findings from the Netherlands by Verduijn suggest lower cancer mortality risk [although strong indications of elevated cancer incidence - See Verduijn, 1996] than the US studies, the Dutch treatment protocol delivered total radiation doses about 3.5 times lower on average than that delivered to the average NRI treated child in the US.
I'd strongly suggest you read the entire original published papers, or take a look at the two relevent Ph.D. theses of NRI health impacts conducted at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, as the treatment was delivered in the US, which I referenced in my prior e-mail. This is too important an issue to evaluate based on the NCI 's [or the CDC's] questionably based statements to date which come up so short vs. the facts at hand.
Stewart Farber, MS Public Health
Consulting Scientist
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Date: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 04:14:16 PM
Subject: RE: Potassium Iodide Symposium -Thyroid Radiation Risk I assume you are aware of the findings posted by the NCI at http://www.cancer.gov/newscenter/content_nav.aspx?viewid=a6d70f8d-8167-4945- ad3f-59fed7d67fef If the link does not work, go to http://www.cancer.gov/newscenter and enter as a search term nasal irradiation -- John John P. Jacobus, MS Certified Health Physicist e-mail: jenday1@msn.com -----Original Message----- From: Stewart Farber [mailto:farbersa@optonline.net] Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 7:28 PM To: Bobbi Smith Cc: Radsafe; Spohn, Larry; senator@lieberman.senate.gov Subject: Re: Potassium Iodide Symposium -Thyroid Radiation Risk Dear Bobbi Smith: I saw your note below posted to the Radsafe bulletin board. Perhaps, since the focus of this upcoming meeting is thyroid disease risk from radiation exposure, the American Thyroid Association should insist on a concurrent discussion of the documented thyroid health risks [among other head and neck diseases both malignant and non-malignant] of Nasal Radium Irradiation [NRI], a medical procedure which was developed at Johns Hopkins and used to treat enlarged adenoids in military personnel in WWII and children in vast numbers after WWII. . | |||
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