Re: Fallout blamed for thyroid cancer

["Otto G. Raabe" <ograabe@ucdavis.edu>]

September 17, 1998
Davis, CA

It would seem that any increased risk of thyroid cancer that can be linked
to the nuclear weapons tests in Nevada should have already occurred since
most of the tests were more than 35 years ago. But I don't think that the
distribution of thyroid cancers in the U.S. since then shows any pattern
that can be related to atmospheric nuclear tests. Have thyroid cancer rates
increased markedly?

Does anyone know where the US Cancer Atlas can be found on the web? 

Otto
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