RE: report find radium raises risk of bone cancer in men - question

["Gerald Nicholls" <Gerald.Nicholls@dep.state.nj.us>]

Jaro wrote:



Would someone kindly explain whether these NJ cancers now being

attributed

to NORM radium in drinking water, are the same cancers which the Tooth

Fairy

Project is attributing to local area NPPs ?



Response:



The osteosarcoma study dealt only with NORM - naturally occuring Ra-224,

Ra-226 and Ra-228.  There was no link hypothesized to nuclear power

plants.  To be honest, I have a great deal of difficulty in interpreting

the Tooth Fairy Project results.  But, what little has been published

about their method of measuring Sr-90 in "baby teeth" leads me to

speculate that they may actually be measuring radium isotopes and their

decay products, not Sr-90.



Snip

>Out of morbid curiosity, what childhood cancer(s) was (were) being

investigated?



Response: In case-control/interview study in Dover Township, the cancers

were leukemias and brain and central nervous system cancers.  There were

40 cases and 160 controls.



Gerald Nicholls

NJ Department of Environmental Protection

609-633-7964





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