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Leukemia risks in atomic-bomb survivors - Radiation Effects Research Foundation
LSS cohort through 1990. Table. Leukemia deaths between 1950 and 1990 among LSS survivors with significant exposures Dose range Number of leukemia deaths Estimated excess deaths Attributable ... range. Thus, although leukemia is a rare disease, accounting for only about 4% of all cancer deaths and fewer than 1% of all deaths, excess leukemia deaths constitute about 20% of ...
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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 ... 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 ...
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Kind Planet Environmental Info - Biodiversity - Part of Our Environmental Forum
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 ... clotting could be dangerous or painful, such as contusions and thrombosis, preventing thousands of deaths each year. Surgeons have also adapted hyaluronidase, an enzyme produced by leeches, to circulate ...
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EHP: Volume 110, Number 9, September 2002
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 ... Bunce p. 853 [HTML] [ Download PDF] Articles The Effect of Weather on Respiratory and Cardiovascular Deaths in 12 U.S. Cities Alfésio L. F. Braga, Antonella Zanobetti, and Joel ...
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Coalition for Clean Air - Air Pollution - Pollutants & Health Effects
The World Health Organization has estimated that 500,000 premature deaths each year may be associated with PM pollution. Fine particulate air pollution (<2.5 ... as benzene, and formaldehyde. 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 ...
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Why Green-e » Why Renewable Energy » Your Health
According to the World Watch Institute, implementing climate policies that will reduce our ... 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 ...
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Gene Therapy Woes
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
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 ... 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 ...
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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
A-bomb survivors' children. 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. On ... cancer at 1 Sv of radiation exposure (1950-1997) Site Relative risk Leukemia 5.6 All cancers (excluding leukemia) 1.5 Esophageal cancer 2.2 Stomach cancer 1.4 Colon cancer 1 ...
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