Re:

["Frank "Free Spirit" Borger" <frank@rover.bsd.uchicago.edu>]

> From:          "Sue M. Dupre" <dupre@phoenix.princeton.edu>
> To:            Multiple recipients of list <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>

> He launched into an explanation of the history of radium dial painting and
> made the statement that "... every one of the girls and women developed
> cancers of the tongue, throat or some other kind of oral cancer!"  I
> don't actually know the incidence of oral cancers among that population
> (though I do remember that there's been previous discussion on RADSAFE
> about the limited incidence of BONE cancer amond the dial painters), but
> that sounded very wrong, so I challenged him. 

	Good! He' s on the wrong end of a typical urban legend.

	I got the following from a web search.

		radium poisoning ref


3 May 1994

For documentation on the radium poisoning story, see
the following references supplied by Stan Schwarz.

Terry Chan

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