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Re: [Know_Nukes] From the Swiss Medical Weekly.

I have looked briefly at the article, but I did not

see a "five-fold increase in cancer."  Also, weren't

all of the liquidators male?



--- Ivor Surveyor <isurveyor@vianet.net.au> wrote:



> To Know_Nukes:

> The following paper can be downloaded from the

> Internet.

> 

> Okeanov AE, Sosnovskaya, Priatkina OP.    A national

> cancer registry to 

> assess trends after the Chernobyl accident.

> Swiss Med Wkly 2004;134: 645-649

> 

> <http://www.smw.ch/pdf200x/2004/43/smw-10221.pdf>

> 

> The data is from the National Cancer Registry of

> Belarus and reports 

> increased incidence of some cancers comparing the

> period 1976-1985 with 

> 1990-2000, as well as incidence within regions of

> Belarus.   A low exposure 

> region namely, Vitebsk was used as a control for the

> liquidator 

> population.   Increase in RR was reported for

> cancers of colon, lung, 

> urinary bladder and "globally for all sites."   

> Tobacco as a confounder is 

> very briefly discussed.

> 

> The findings in this report seem to be at variance

> with UNSCEAR-2000.   I 

> would be pleased to read an expert assessment of

> these findings and how to 

> put this data into the total perspective of the

> Chernobyl story.

> 

> 

> 

> 

> Ivor Surveyor MD, FRCP; FRACP

> Emeritus Consultant Physician, Nuclear Medicine

> [isurveyor@vianet.net.au} 





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-- John

John Jacobus, MS

Certified Health Physicist

e-mail:  crispy_bird@yahoo.com





		

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