And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: 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. &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& Tsonkwadiyonrat (We are ONE Spirit) Unenh onhwa' Awayaton http://www.tdi.net/ishgooda/ &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&