Re: Wearing Radium-Dial Watches - Hazards?

[Joel Baumbaugh <baumbaug@nosc.mil>]

	Ron,

	I know of no "documented" cases (such an experiment would NEVER make it
through "my" Human Subjects Committee, but have a (show-and-tell) instance
to share.  Some years ago while working at a local University, I knew a
post-doc researcher from India who wore a radium-dial watch that his
deceased father had given him.  He had had it for close to 15 years.  He
ended up having a neoplasm removed from DIRECTLY under the watch.  He is
(to my knowledge) STILL wearing the watch even though we had a complete and
thorough discussion about probable cause.  The watch's dose rate was about
3 mr/hr (30 micro Sv) at the back and he NEVER took it off.

	Hope this helps,

	Joel Baumbaugh (baumbaug@nosc.mil)
	SSC-SD
	
At 02:29 PM 2/5/99 -0600, you wrote:
>Hi All,
>Is anyone aware of documented injuries attributed to wearing a watch with
>radium-painted hands? Thanks, ron 
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