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Professor and Chairman Emeritus of the
Dept. of Biochemistry, U. Missouri-Columbia School of Medicine, Dr. Don Luckey reports
(1991) on female sterility treatments, that: "Kaplan treated 644 women for sterility by exposing their ovaries to 65 cGy of 200 kV X- ray. None of the resulting 351 pregnancies resulted in genetic damage: ‘the incidence of genetic damage to the children and grandchildren of this group is less than that in the normal population’. (Kaplan 1938, 1949, 1959) The occurrence of genetic malformations and cancer following prenatal exposure to 1 cGy is about 30 times less than that which occurs naturally. (Mole 1979) The "one rad range" covers the 1 mGy to 10 cGy used in diagnostic X-rays and nuclear medicine. (Bross 1979) There is evidence that point mutations appear in lymphocytes of recently exposed radiotherapy technicians; this disappears after a few months. (Messing 1989)" |
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