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...Laura MacDanald, aged 20 months, left hospital in Darby, Pa. in good condition after a unique operation to combat the ravages of acute leukemia, which threatened her with early death. Laura is one of identical twins. When her disease became resistant to drug treatment, doctors gave her a massive dose of whole-body X rays to destroy bone marrow that was making abnormal blood cells, then took 40 cc. of marrow fluid (containing an estimated 2 billion healthy cells) from twin Mary, injected the material into Laura's bloodstream. Though pleased that Laura's blood returned to near...
...prostate, UP 75%; the bladder, up 117%; liver and gall bladder, up 352%. Cancer at some such sites might have been caused either by direct action of substances in cigarette tar, or by spread from an undetected tumor in the lung. No relationship was found between smoking and leukemia, or cancer of the brain, colon or rectum...
...megaton* explosions rise into the stratosphere and circulate round the earth for years. Most threatening of them is strontium 90, whose long half-life (28 years) keeps it potent during its stratospheric circling, and whose habit of lodging for keeps in human bone makes it a probable cause of leukemia and bone cancer...
These 1,000,000 people will have died ten or 20 or 30 years earlier than their normal life span because the radiation has produced bone cancer, leukemia or some other disease. I estimate also that these bomb tests will cause the birth of 200,000 seriously defective children in the next generation...
Geneticist E. B. Lewis, also of Caltech, proves in Science that leukemia (a cancer-like blood disease) is indeed caused by radiation. He uses statistics covering Japanese atom-bomb victims and three types of Americans exposed to large amounts of X rays. Strontium 90, he believes, will have the same effect. He figures that if its concentration in U.S. bones ever rises to one-tenth of what the AEC considers the "maximum permissible concentration," leukemia in the U.S. will increase...