RADIATION IS A KNOWN CAUSE OF BREAST CANCER

[Joe Neubarth]

What is the major cause of breast cancer? Twenty-seven peer-reviewed scientific papers and technical reports have now identified radiation as a cause of breast cancer in women. The first such report appeared in 1965, and since then the evidence has mounted at the rate of nearly one new study each year for 30 years. The evidence has been presented repeatedly in the JOURNAL OF THE NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE; in the NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE; in the LANCET; in the BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL; in the BRITISH JOURNAL OF CANCER; in CANCER; and in RADIATION RESEARCH. Evidence has been gathered by studying breast cancer among women in many countries exposed to many different sources of radiation. RADIATION IS A KNOWN CAUSE OF BREAST CANCER IN WOMEN; it is not speculative or uncertain.

www.ejnet.org/rachel/rehw443.htm

[Joe Neubarth]

Breast cancer figures spark fresh fears over nuclear power risk
www.thisissomerset.co.uk/Fresh-fears-nuclear-power-risk/story-11343426-detail/story.html

Fresh fears over the health effects of nuclear power were raised last night after new figures showed breast cancer diagnoses are 50 per cent above national figures in two areas near Hinkley Point in Somerset.
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This Nuclear Power site is one among hundreds that have documented soaring Breast Cancer Rates in the nearby population.

[Joe Neubarth]

The female breast is known to be highly susceptible to the cancer-causing effects of radiation when exposure occurs before menopause. This fact sheet will discuss what is known about radiation induced breast cancer and what factors influence or modify the effects of exposure.

envirocancer.cornell.edu/factsheet/physical/fs52.radiation.cfm