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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Help spread the word
Alec Baldwin
On behalf of
ONE IN NINE BREAST CANCER ACTION COALITION
RADIATION AND PUBLIC HEALTH PROJECT (RPHP)
STAR (STANDING FOR TRUTH ABOUT RADIATION)
Cordially invites you to
A discussion of the baby tooth study and cancer rates on Long Island
RADIATION AND HEALTH SEMINAR
May 25, 1999
7 p.m.
Westhampton Performing Arts Center
PROGRAM
Ernest Sternglass, Ph.D., Co-Director,RPHP Baby Teeth Study, Professor
Emeritus,
Radiological Physics, University of Pittsburgh Medical School.
TOPIC: The baby teeth study past and present.
Janette D. Sherman, M.D., Internal Medicine specialist,
STAR Advisory Board, RPHP Research Associate.
TOPIC: Nuclear radiation, chemical carcinogens and breast cancer
Jan Schlictmann, Attorney at Law, STAR Board of Directors.
TOPIC: Woburn, Massachusetts and Toms River, New Jersey contamination cases
Dr. Minna Barrett, One in Nine Breast Cancer Action Coalition.
TOPIC: Breast cancer on Long Island
Alec Baldwin, Moderator, Board of Directors, STAR
For information contact STAR FOUNDATION
(516) 324-0655
(Directions on back)
Recently, Actor Alec Baldwin sent a letter to 15,000 families in New York
and New Jersey asking them to donate their children’s baby teeth to the
“Tooth Fairy Project” a national, scientific study of American’s exposure to
radioactivity. The study will measure levels of radioactive strontium-90 in
the teeth of children.
Why Study Baby Teeth? The chemical structure of Sr-90 is so similar to that
of calcium that the body deposits Sr-90 in the bones and teeth instead of
calcium, continually emitting cancer-causing beta radiation. Most of the
strontium in the baby teeth is transferred to the fetus from the mother
during pregnancy.
By studying the discarded teeth of young children, we can identify where and
when the babies were born, and where the mother lived while carrying. As
result, we can accurately determine when and where radioactivity was
absorbed from the environment.
Our Federal Government no longer measures strontium-90 uptake in baby teeth
and, therefore does not track exposure from nuclear reactors and other
radioactive sources. As a result, the Radiation and Public Health Project
(RPHP) has launched its own national study of the levels of radioactivity in
American baby teeth. This study will gather the necessary clinical evidence
to determine whether nuclear reactors and Federal laboratories affect our
public health and contribute to America's cancer epidemic.
Study history: In 1958 dental associations in St. Louis, organized by Dr.
Barry Commoner, concerned about increasing fallout from aboveground nuclear
tests, independently began collecting baby teeth. The goal of the effort
was to ascertain strontium-90 levels and to investigate the impacts of
fallout from aboveground bomb tests that had began in 1945. More than
60,000 teeth were collected in St. Louis showing that by 1965 levels
increased fifty-fold increase in strontium levels from 1951.
In the 1970s, Sr-90 levels in baby teeth dropped back down to about the same
level reached in the US by 1958. Studies published by researchers in both
Denmark and Japan were continued until the early 1980s. These reveal that
sometime in the mid-1970s the strontium-90 levels in teeth leveled out,
followed by a slight upturn.
Unfortunately, a current study of some 6,000 baby teeth collected, in
Germany since 1992 by the German Section of the International Physicians for
the Prevention of Nuclear War--winner of the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize
Award--found the trend has changed. The analysis found a tenfold increase
in Sr-90 levels in children born in the period following the arrival of
Chernobyl fallout in May of 1986, as compared with children born in 1983,
before the Chernobyl fallout.
Co-Sponsors:
NEW YORK PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP
SEARCH (Seeking Answers for Rhabdomyosarcoma Children)
Directions:
Sunrise Hwy. To Exit 63S (Westhampton Beach) County Road 31-
At 3rd light, continue straight & follow signs to Beach & business district.
Immediately after St. Marks Church, make a left onto Main Street
Theater is at 76 North Main; Municipal parking available directly across
from the theater
Scott Cullen
Counsel
STAR (Standing for Truth About Radiation)
P.O. Box 4206
East Hampton, NY 11937
(516) 324-0655
fax: 516 324-2203
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.noradiation.org
Reprinted under the fair use http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.html
doctrine of international copyright law.
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