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Professor
Emeritus Dr. Sohei Kondo of Osaka U., and Kinki U., reports (1993, Section 4.3) that: "In
the (US) radium-dial painters, the observed:expected ratio for deaths from all causes is
0.88 (p <0.05). This means that the radium-dial painters, excluding the few high-dose
workers who died of bone and nasal cancer, showed significant reduction in mortality from
all causes compared with the control group. A similar survey of 1203 UK radium luminizers
also found significantly lower rates of death from all causes except bone and nasal cancer
among luminizers than among controls. " Dr.
Robert Rowland, former director of the Center for Human Radiobiology at Argonne National
Laboratory, describes (1997) dial painter death rates: Among female dial workers,
the malignancies induced by radium, the bone sarcomas and the head carcinomas, are the
only causes of life shortening. The average survival of the dial worker population is
indistinguishable from estimates of the survival of contemporary white females of the same
age. This is a remarkable result. In a population of some 1000 persons, the life
expectancy of the remaining population was unaffected by radium burden. |
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