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Last Updated: Jun 30, 2008 - 11:14:37 AM |
New Study Is One of Many Linking Fluoride to Cancer
New York -- April 7, 2006 -- Fluoridation is linked to bone cancer (osteosarcoma) in young boys reports the May 2006 Harvard peer-reviewed journal, Cancer Causes and Control.
This fluoridation-cancer study, by Elise Bassin, PhD and colleagues, follows on the heels of the National Academy of Sciences National Research Councils (NRC) report revealing the scientific evidence showing how fluoridation can harm subsets of the population.
Monitor your own intake. [high water drinkers], the elderly and people with severe renal deficiency who have trouble excreting fluoride in their urine are likely to have increased bone-fluoride concentrations," reports the Chicago Tribune. High fluoride levels damage bones and teeth.(2)
Many studies link fluoride to cancer. Examples:
1954 Taylor reports more tumors and shorter lifespan in fluoride treated mice. (3)
1956 Landmark 10-year Newburgh/Kingston fluoridation study shows more cortical bone defects (a suspected precursor to osteosarcoma) in children drinking fluoridated water. (4)
1977 Burk-Yiamouyiannis show cancer death rates in the 10 largest fluoridated U.S. cities were higher and rose faster vs. the 10 largest nonfluoridated U.S. cities after corrections for age, race, and sex.. (5)
1977 National Academy of Sciences expresses concern about a possible water fluoridation/osteosarcoma link based on the Newburgh /Kingston cortical bone defect evidence. (6)
1977 Congressional hearings based on the Burk/Yiamouyiannis findings lead to fluoride cancer testing in rodents by the National Toxicology Program (NTP) (6)
1990 NTP reports fluoride is an equivocal (may or may not) cause of cancer. EPA drinking water senior toxicologist, William Marcus PhD, reports results were suspiciously downgraded in the final report.(7) Marcus was fired for stating the truth but rehired with back pay under the whistle-blowers act.
1990 National Cancer Institute finds more osteosarcoma in young males in fluoridated vs unfluoridated areas; but finds cause to dismiss the results.(6)
1990 Procter & Gamble (P&G) makes public a 1981-1983 study showing more bone tumors in fluoride-treated rats but claims they were not statistically significant. Another P&G study finds a significant increase in benign bone tumors in fluoride treated mice. (6)
1992 New Jersey Department of Health study shows osteosarcoma rates higher among young males in fluoridated vs unfluoridated regions of New Jersey (6). The reports title was changed to obscure connection to fluoridation.
1993 Yiamouyiannis analysis of National Cancer Institute's cancer data confirms fluoridation/osteosarcoma link in males. (6)
2001 Bassins Harvard Dissertation shows osteosarcoma in boys in fluoridated areas is five times higher than in non-fluoridated areas.(6). Her dissertation is uncovered in the rare books section of library. Fluoridationists insist the study should be ignored because its not published and its only one study.
2002-2005 Chester Douglass, Elise Bassins Harvard dissertation advisor, issues a report to his research funders at the National Institutes of Health in 2003 in which he concludes there is no link between fluoridation and bone cancer He references Bassin's thesis in support of his statement despite her conclusions which directly contradict his claim..(9) Douglass also makes the same misrepresentation in an earlier presentation to the British Fluoridation Society in 2002. In 2005, Douglass becomes the subject of a joint federal and Harvard ethics investigation. (10)
2006 NRC Panel finds cancer/fluoride link plausible
2006 (May issue) Bassins osteosarcoma/fluoridation study is published in Cancer Causes and Control, along with a letter to the editor from Chester Douglass who cites unpublished, unfinished, non-peer-reviewed data in an attempt to downplay Bassins peer-reviewed published findings of a significant link between osteosarcoma in boys and water fluoridation..
EPA has more than enough evidence to shut down fluoridation, right now, with a special advisory, says retired EPA scientist, Robert Carton, PhD. The safe drinking water act requires the EPA to act to protect all populations from known or anticipated harm (8), says Carton.
Contact: Robert Carton, PhD.,
bcarton@verizon.net.
518-275-1731
SOURCE: NYS Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation, Inc
PO Box 263
Old Bethpage, NY 11804
http://www.orgsites.com/ny/nyscof
http://www.FluorideAction.Net
nyscof@aol.com
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