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Baby tooth study resumes, seeking links between fallout radiation and cancer

Baby tooth study resumes, seeking links between fallout from radiation and cancer

 by Robert KellyST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH01/02/2009Questionnaires will soon be sent to thousands of men who donated their baby teeth half a century ago to scientists seeking to learn whether radioactive fallout in milk the donors drank as children affected their health later in life.It’s the latest step in a study that began in the 1950s and 1960s at Washington University, but then stalled for decades.Fifty years ago, concern about atmospheric tests of nuclear weapons spurred a group of local scientists and other area residents to begin the project, then called the St. Louis Baby Tooth Survey.An early apparent link between fallout and health problems was established by the study. But now, more than 40 years later, the study is resuming. Researchers now hope to find links between fallout and instances of cancer in children born in the 1950s and early 1960s…………………………… Preliminary results of the new study are expected by the middle of 2009, a New York-based scientist says.

01/02/2009 – Baby tooth study resumes, seeking links between fallout radiation and cancer – STLtoday.com

January 4, 2009 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized