Re: Radiation martyrs - dial painters included?

["Björn Cedervall" <bjorn_cedervall@hotmail.com>]

>There would not likely have been dial painter osteosarcoma deaths in
>1936. Early dial painter deaths were from acute medical conditions, 
esp.
>bone necrosis, sometimes identified as a general systems collapse.

I thank you for the extensive clarification and references. Wonder 
where I got the osteosarcomas from - most probably from Martland 
around the year 1930. Read a few of his/her articles in 1975 - 
certainly details of Martland's publications have disappeared from my 
mind since then and in addition I can impossibly have a well founded 
opinion about the quality of tumor classifications made at that time. 
Some of the descriptions were probably vague - like those of anemias. 
As I recall the story, fractures occured (lumbal, collum femoralis, 
and at other sites) and this was how the tumors were found - but 
realistically there may have been histological misinterpretations 
made then. If all this has been re-evaluated I am of course willing 
to adopt a better interpretation according to other lines - the 
classification is important. I guess the number of radiation induced 
deaths still remains the same (the recent review in Radiat. Res. 
(Oct. or Nov. 1998) by S. Fry should also be checked).
Only my own thoughts have been reflected here.
bjorn_cedervall@hotmail.com

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