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Does exposure to medical X rays cause cancer, in particular leukemia, a form of the disease long known to be linked with radiation? Doctors have never been able to give a conclusive answer because they lacked records showing how much radiation patients had received. Last week researchers at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., said that they have finally overcome this difficulty. Turning to the centralized medical records of Minnesota's Olmsted County, they compared the X-ray dosages of 138 people who developed leukemia between the years 1955 and 1974 and those of 276 other people...
...farmers run much higher risks than urban dwellers of developing and dying from six types of cancer. Analyzing the death certificates of more than 20,000 white male lowans, Dr. Leon Burmeister and his colleagues found that prostate, stomach, lymph gland and lip cancer, as well as leukemia and multiple myeloma (a form of bone marrow cancer), occurred up to three times more frequently among farmers...
...which was three times more common among farmers than their city brethren, seems obvious. Explains Burmeister: "We could say with a fair amount of confidence that it is probably related to sun exposure. But for the others, particularly prostatic cancer, we don't really know." He speculates that leukemia may be related to dairy farming or to corn raising. "It is certainly something worth pursuing," he says, "but it will take a long time to make the connection, if we ever make...
...interferon by injecting viruses into the brains of laboratory mice; that stimulated the production of IF. After mashing the brains and processing them, he was left with a crude but potent solution of interferon. He gave the IF to a group of mice injected with a virus that causes leukemia, a blood cancer. After a month, the interferon-treated mice were in good health; those in an untreated control group had leukemia. Gresser then went on to demonstrate that IF actually prevented leukemia in mice that had been specially bred to develop it. Says he: "The interferon inhibited the multiplication...
Speakers said nuclear warfare could lead to epidemics, leukemia in children, psychic numbing, loss of identity, global atmospheric changes, lethal radiation exposure to neutral nations, critical oil and grain shortages and genetic defects for untold future generations...