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Breast cancer and radioactive strontium in baby teeth (1997)

Author	Jay M.Gould, RPHP
Date	July 1997
Classification	6.01.4.60/45 (RADIATION - AROUND FACILITIES)
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BREAST CANCER AND RADIOACTIVE STRONTIUM IN BABY TEETH

By Jay M. Gould
Radiation and Public Health Project, New York

SUMMARY

With the support of pediatric dentists belonging to the New York Physicians for
Social Responsibility and the United Methodist Church, the non-profit Radiation and
Public Health Project has undertaken an ambitious clinical study that may illuminate
a linkage of low-level radiation as one of the most neglected environmental causes of
the breast cancer epidemic of our times.
Financed by Long Island family foundations, concerned about recent revelations of
long-term radioactive discharges from the Brookhaven National Laboratory in Suffolk
County, we are collecting baby teeth from all counties in the New York metropolitan
area in order to seek significant differences, if they exist, in temporal and
geographic average levels of strontium-90 in deciduous (baby) teeth in the New York
metropolitan area, which according to the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, has
been exposed, since 1970, to the nation's highest per-capita levels of reactor
emissions of radioactive iodine and strontium. (1) Significantly elevated levels
of Sr-90 in baby teeth indicate possible compromised immune response in the
mother, as a contributor to the early onset of breast cancer.

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