Three Mile Island Decades Later:Cancer Fears Unrealized

[Stewart Farber <farbersa@optonline.net>]

Radsafe:

The current publication cited below should be of interest to the list. See this 

month's issue of EHP [Environmental Health Perspectives] from the NIEHS [National 

Institute of Environmental Health Sciences] which is available online, for an 

article summarized by the publication cover as: "Three Mile Island Decades Later: 

Cancer Fears Unrealized"



The publication abstract and paper interestingly hedges a bit however in noting 

that for certain cancer sites there is a "suggestion of a trend" in a dose vs. 

response relationship [where the categories of exposure are broken down into 4 

intervals [with the highest being only greater than 35 mrem]. The trend analysis 

noted is however not statistically significant, and the authors state that more 

study is needed [Major conclusion of any study it seems]. Nonetheless, this is an 

important reference.





Stewart Farber, MS Public Health

email: farbersa@optonline.net

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Volume 111, Number 3, March 2003

The March issue of Environmental Health Perspectives is now available online

at:



http://ehpnet1.niehs.nih.gov/docs/2003/111-3/toc.html



Cover Highlights:

*	Three Mile Island Decades Later: Cancer Fears Unrealized

A 166, & 341



Long-Term Follow-Up of the Residents of the Three Mile Island Accident Area:

1979-1998

Evelyn O. Talbott, Ada O. Youk, Kathleen P. McHugh-Pemu, and Jeanne V.

Zborowski

p. 341





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