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To: koan who wrote (86647)	4/1/2012 5:18:48 PM
From: T L Comiskey	Respond to of 89467

re.... Yeah, I never thought we would make it this long without a nuclear war. we kinda did........ 'women and children...first.....'..it seems.. RIP many years later, with the Cold War over, that the first large-scale study of cancer risk from bomb fallout was published. Congress mandated that the U.S. National Cancer Institute conduct the study, but the Institute took 15 years to produce it. In 1997, the report was finally released, and it concluded that Iodine-131 from tests, consumed in milk, caused from 11,000 to 212,000 Americans to develop thyroid cancer. A 2002 unreleased report by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated that 35,000 U.S. cancer cases (15,000 fatal) were caused by bomb fallout. Projections of worldwide casualties from fallout suggest that the U.S. figures are highly underestimated. In 1996, the International Commission on Radiation Protection projected that 2,350,000 cancer cases would occur from fallout, half of them fatal. In 2003, the European Committee on Radiation Risk (formed by a panel of the European Parliament) issued a report stating that risk had been highly understated. Their estimates of 123,200,000 cancer cases (half of them fatal), 1,600,000 infant deaths, and 1,900,000 fetal deaths from fallout far exceeded any prior projections. With such a wide discrepancy in estimates, the issue of calculating cancer risk to Americans from fallout still remains largely unresolved, more than half a century after testing began. radiation.org