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"Low Level Revision 1 1.2.4 1.2.4.3 |
Dr. Robert Rowland, former director of
the Center for Human Radiobiology at Argonne National Laboratory, describes (1997) dial
painter death rates: "The measurement of life shortening among the female dial workers should be mentioned. In two studies (Stehney 1978, Rowland 1994), it has been shown that the malignancies induced by radium, the bone sarcomas and the head carcinomas, are the only causes of life shortening. Stehney et al. summarized their findings as follows: ‘This study has demonstrated that when the radium tumor deaths are removed, 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, for it implies that to the precision obtainable with a population of some 1000 persons, the life expectancy of the remaining population was unaffected by radium burden.’ |
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