RE: Leukemia in the news

["Michael C. Baker" <mcbaker@lanl.gov>]

Isn't this the same data that was presented in the class action 
lawsuit claiming health effects from TMI that was thrown out by
the court for lack of credibility last year?  Is the Environmental
Health Perspectives peer reviewed?

Mike Baker ... mcbaker@lanl.gov


At 11:17 AM 6/12/98 -0500, you wrote:
>
>Mr. Ith got his information at the Leukemia Soceity of America's
>website.
>http://www.leukemia.org
>
>This is the article:
>
>(7/97) Three Mile Island Nuclear Accident Linked to Residents' Leukemia
>Risk
>A survey by investigators from University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
>showed an increased risk of cancer, including leukemia, for people
>living near Three Mile Island (TMI), following the nuclear accident at
>the Pennsylvania facility on March 28, 1979.
>Their study, published in Environmental Health Perspectives, challenged
>a 1990 Columbia University study that concluded radiation exposures were
>too low to cause a cancer increase. The new study says, "Cancer
>incidence, specifically lung cancer and leukemia, increased more
>following the TMI accident in areas estimated to have been in the
>pathway of radioactive plumes than in others areas."
>