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Leukemia risks in atomic-bomb survivors - Radiation Effects Research Foundation
A-bomb survivors have focused on the period beginning in 1950. As of 1990, there were 176 leukemia deaths among 50,113 LSS survivors with significant exposures. It is estimated that about 90 of these deaths are associated with radiation exposure. This excess was especially apparent because much of it occurred during the first 10 to 15 ...
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Welcome to Downwinders
BBC, May 14, 2002 USA Today - Fallout likely caused 15,000 deaths - By Peter Eisler Fallout likely caused 15,000 deaths - Study links nuclear tests to cancer cases - By Peter Eisler Despite ... two primary goals: To expose the plight of downwind residents whose fallout exposures have caused cancers, leukemia, and other illnesses, and to obtain justice for their injuries. To fight for an immediate end ...
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Kind Planet Environmental Info - Biodiversity - Part of Our Environmental Forum
The rosy periwinkle (Catharanthus roseus), a flowering plant found in Madagascar, is the source of the alkaloid chemicals vinblastine and vincristine that are used to treat Hodgkin's disease and acute lymphocytic leukemia, two otherwise highly fatal cancers. The survival rate for lymphocytic leukemia, the most common form of childhood leukemia, was only 4% prior to the discovery ...
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EHP: Volume 110, Number 9, September 2002
Comstock Purchase This Issue China Today: An Emerging Environment A 516 Is Perchlorate a Problem? Limited Impact on Drinking Water Safety A 532 & 927 Pesticides & Childhood Leukemia: Timing Is Everything 955 Perspectives Guest Editorials Geologic Environments and Human Health in China Daoxian Yuan p. A 500 [HTML] [ Download PDF] Beijing Tackles Its Environmental Problems with ...
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Coalition for Clean Air - Air Pollution - Pollutants & Health Effects
Benzene has been shown to cause aplastic anemia and acute myelogenous leukemia in occupational studies of workers exposed to it. Known health concerns related to aldehydes include cancer, asthma, and respiratory tract irritation. It is also believed that these air toxics ...
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Why Green-e » Why Renewable Energy » Your Health
Chernobyl. Health effects of radioactive waste include cancer, sterility and even death. Radiation may cause immune system damage, leukemia, miscarriages, stillbirths, deformities and genetic mutations. Mercury is a highly toxic metal that is released from coal-fired power plants. Mercury accumulates in the fat cells of fish and ...
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Gene Therapy Woes
The sources for this article is posted on ISIS members website. Details here Toxic shock and leukemia The public first became aware of the dangers of gene therapy when healthy teenage Jesse ... "misinformed" consent. And it is also easy for the experimenter to misinterpret adverse events and deaths as unrelated to the treatment. printer friendly version Recent Publications The Rainbow and the Worm, ...
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Resource: Death: A Personal Understanding
AIDS, a young businesswoman, a Holocaust survivor, and a war journalist discuss how facing their own deaths and the deaths of others has affected and in some cases, transformed their lives. 4. The Deathbed In ... , and a young widow who recounts the final serene days of her husband's battle with leukemia. 5. Fear of Death and Dying Despite the centuries-old human struggle to "domesticate" death, the ...
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Polonium (Po) - Chemical properties, Health and Environmental effects
The Surgeon General C. Everett Koop stated that radioactivity, ... tobacco smoke than from any other source." Cigarette smoking accounts for 30% of all cancer deaths. Only poor diet rivals tobacco smoke as a cause of cancer in the U.S ...
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RERF's Research - Radiation Effects Research Foundation
Cancers with increased incidence among A-bomb survivors In addition to deaths from leukemia, deaths from thyroid, breast, lung, colon, and stomach cancers are known to have increased. ... Note: Average relative risk for survivors exposed at age 30, both sexes combined. Risk for leukemia based on data collected between 1950 and 1990. Matters elucidated thus far Matters to be ...
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