Re: Thyroid cancer?

["Jacobus, John (OD)" <JJacobus@exchange.nih.gov>]

You wrote: 
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Does any radsefer know what are other substances (radioactive or stable)
that could cause thyroid cancer (other than the radioactive Iodine)?

Thanks,,

--
Khalid Aleissa
e-mail: kaleissa@kacst.edu.sa
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While I do not claim to be an expert on the subject, the EPA provided a document
entitled the Assessment of Thyroid Follicular Cell Tumors (EPA/630/R-97-002),
which describes is procedures it will use to evaluate these tumors and the data
that are needed to make these judgments.  It can be found at

http://www.epa.gov/nceawww1/thyroid.htm

I would rather provide a source of information rather than telling you to go
away.  That seems to be a favorite tactic of some of subscribers lately.

-- John 

"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. " 
Ralph Waldo Emerson

John Jacobus, MS
Health Physicist
National Institutes of Health
Radiation Safety Branch, Building 21
21 Wilson Drive, MSC 6780
Bethesda, MD  20892-6780
Phone: 301-496-5774      Fax: 301-496-3544
jjacobus@exchange.nih.gov (W)
jenday@ix.netcom.com (H)
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