Laptop Battery Results have been announced of the multi-million dollar federal Long Island Breast Cancer Study--that no links have been found between breast cancer here and several chemicals studied--and Newsday has devoted a series to the studys inconclusive outcome and the New York Times featured it on the front page of its Week in Review section.
Breast cancer rates may be higher in industrial areas. Postmenopausal women in Nassau County, New York, who live within a mile of a chemical, petroleum, rubber, or plastics facility are 60 percent more likely to develop breast cancer than postmenopausal women who lived in other parts of Long Island, according to a study by New York State Department of Health researchers.
Thinkpad One word is not mentioned in the Newsday or New York Times articles: radioactivity. That is because radioactivity was specifically not part of the study.
"Epidemic That Wasn't" (news article, Aug. 29) states that the breast cancer rates on Long Island "are not much different from those of the rest of the country." If the breast cancer rates on Long Island reflect the national occurrence, then our country is in a sorry state.
Microsoft This is an outrage to those who believe that in analyzing the high rates of breast cancer on Long Island, the impacts of radioactivity from the nuclear power plants that surround Long Island and the reactors at Brookhaven National Laboratory--smack in the middle of Long Island--must be analyzed, too.
(AXcess News) A recent study shows that obese women are more at risk to breast cancer. According to the American Cancer Society, postmenopausal women who gain more than 60 pounds during their adult years are three times as likely to be diagnosed with the most deadly forms of breast cancer as women who gain 20 pounds or less. The study shows that women who gain weight after the age of 18 were found to have a significant risk for contracing all types of breast cancer from being overweight.
Laptop Computers Dr. Janette Sherman, an internist and toxicologist, noted in a letter published in Saturdays New York Times, that a critical omission was cited in the federal study even before the study beganaddressing exposures to nuclear radiation.
(HealthDay News) - Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of Breast Cancer This is a clinical study to test safety and efficacy of an experimental drug designed to treat advanced breast cancer. Those who may qualify for the trial are women at least 18 years old who have metastatic or locally unresectable advanced breast cancer and have not had other cancers in the last 3 years (excluding basal or squamous cell skin cancer, or cervical cancer) or cancer that has spread to the brain. feeding.
Laptop Computer Long Island is home to the leaking Brookhaven Lab and downwind from nuclear power reactors in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, Dr. Sherman wrote in her Times letter. She spoke of Long Islanders being exposed to more than 200 radioactive substances, all demonstrated carcinogens. Many studies have linked nuclear releases with cancer Radioactive isotopes are easily measured in tissues and the environment, but this research tool was dismissed for the study.
While dietary fat, especially saturated fat, may play a role in breast cancer, fat diet also causes weight loss. Studies repeatedly link being overweight with a greater risk of postmenopausal breast cancer and breast cancer recurrence. In the Nurses’ Health Study, large weight gains after a diagnosis of breast cancer correlated with a 64 percent greater risk of recurrence; smaller weight gains led to smaller increases in risk.
Desktop Computer Radioactivity, said Dr. Sherman in an interview this week, was something the study wanted to stay away from because documentation of its health impacts could upset the economic investment in nuclear technology, As a result, she said, the study was performed to be inconclusive by design.
Notebooks Dr. Sherman is author of the 2000 book Lifes Delicate Balance: Causes and Prevention of Breast Cancer which includes chapters titled The Breast Cancer Epidemic on Long Island and Radiation--Bikini Island to Long Island. She describes in her book how Long Island breast cancer activists urged inclusion of radiation issues in the Long Island Breast Cancer Study and were rebuffed. The efforts of Mary Joan Shea are specifically cited.
Lenovo Ms. Shea said this week she considers radioactivity a big part of the picture as a breast cancer cause on Long Island and charged it was omitted from the study because there is a big financial interest in maintaining the status quo--there is a lot of money involved.
Hard Drive Research on the Long Island Breast Cancer Study was coordinated by Columbia University and Alice Slater, president of the Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE), tells of a meeting with a high Columbia official about it leaving out radioactivity. When we saw the parameters of the study, we were very concerned. Why were they not looking at radioactivity? recounted Ms. Slater this week.
Travelstar The Columbia administrator was very candid, said Ms. Slater, an attorney. He told us this is a National Institutes of Health study and the NIH does not want to step on the toes of the Department of Energy. A mission of the Department of Energy is promoting nuclear power and it owns Brookhaven National Laboratory.
Gateway Not to look at radiation is absolutely bizarre, said Ms. Slater. Brookhaven Lab has been dripping plutonium and Strontium 90 into our water and emitting radiation from its stacks.
Laptop Parts To Ms. Slater, the Long Island radioactivity omission parallels a global radiation omission--about which she has spoken out. An agreement between the World Health Organization and International Atomic Energy Agency, both United Nations-created bodies--a copy of which she faxed me--states: Whenever either organization proposes to initiate a program or activity on a subject in which the organization has or may have a substantial interest, the first party shall consult the other with a view to adjusting the matter.
Software What this has meant, says Ms. Slater, is that the World Health Organization, the global organization to do research on health trends on this planet, does no research on radiation unless the project is approved by the International Atomic Energy Agency, set up to promote nuclear power and dominated by the nuclear industry, and WHO cannot report the results of its findings unless they are cleared by the IAEA.
Hard Drives Meanwhile, a move is now on change the limits of radiation exposure in the U.S. A Biological Effects of Radiation (BEIR) panel of the National Academy of Sciences is to make recommendations to the federal government. The panel is dominated by those who believe radiation is not as dangerous as thought and there is even interest in the notion of hormesis--that a little radiation is good for people, that it helps exercise the immune system.
Electronics Do you get the feeling were not being protected? Youre right.
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