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Senior Medical
Investigator Emeritus Nobel Laureate (Physiology or Medicine 1977) Dr. Rosalyn Yalow,
Bronx VA Medical Center, and Solomon A. Berson, Distinguished Professor-at-Large, Mt.
Sinai School of Medicine, report (1994) on bomb test observers that in the
National Academy of Sciences National Research Council analysis of 46,186 nuclear
weapons-test participants, there is no excess cancer. An article, "No increase in radiation-related deaths seen in US ‘atomic veterans’ " by Michael McCarthy in the Lancet, November 1996, reports on the National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine [IOM] study of approximately 40,000 US servicemen who participated in Operation Crossroads nuclear bomb tests in 1946 compared with a control group, finding that exposure to ionizing radiation did not cause increased mortality among Crossroads participants. Professor and Chairman Emeritus Dr. T.D. Luckey, Dept. of
Biochemistry of the U. Missouri-Columbia School of Medicine reports (1996) that for
U. S Weapons Tests in 46,186 participants 56 deaths from leukemia were observed compared
with 56.4 expected. For British Weapons Tests in 22,347 participants there was no excess
in all causes of death or for all cancers. Leukemias and multiple myeloma occurred
significantly more often in participants than controls, but only slightly higher than
expected based on national rates, while death rates were much lower than expected in the
controls. For 954 Canadian military personnel involved in clean-up operations after
nuclear reactor accidents at Chalk River Nuclear Laboratories or who had observed nuclear
weapons blasts in the United States or Australia there were no differences in
cause-specific mortality between cases and controls and no trends by degree of exposure
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