The Roanoke Slant

Roanoke Times, 12/15/06, Pg 1: Breast cancer rates plunge 7% in 2003. May have a connection to stopping hormone therapy in 2002.
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It is highly unlikely that a significant change would occur within one year of stopping hormone therapy. Most cancers take considerable time to develop.
There also are other data trends for breast cancer and prostate cancer and lung cancer that indicate we may be close to a major downturn in cancer diagnosis and illness and death.
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The most likely cause of the major cancer pandemic we have experienced during the last 50 years is the nuclear fallout from 500 nuclear-air-bursts that occurred from 1944 through 1965.
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This fallout from US and other country tests swept across the US for 20 years moving west to east with the prevailing winds and jet-stream.
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The primary sources of exposure for people came from food chain “accumulators”. The two accumulators that caused the most damage was milk cows and tobacco products.
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Anyone doubting the grass-to-milk pass-through should try drinking raw milk the first week cows are let out to pasture in the spring. The onion taste and odor is so strong that typically many batches of milk are dumped and not allowed to go to market.
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The tobacco products are a significant risk because the large leaves catch large amounts of dust falling on them and the growing and processing systems do not scrub or washout these particles. They then are inhaled directly into the lungs and plastered there with tars.
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The government clearly understood the fallout-milk connection and belatedly had a funded program in place to compensate farmers who were required to dump nuclear-contaminated milk. I lived in the Catskills and the first time I remember the news reports of milk dumping across Pennsylvania (directly upwind from us) was after nuclear-air-burst tests in the Pacific in the late 1960's. Apparently this program was way too little and way too late.
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This problem was well understood back in the 1950’s and in 1963 Kruschev and Kennedy signed the treaty banning atmospheric nuclear tests. It appears that the data upon which this treaty was based has not been made public. This data was clearly so disturbing that at the height of the Cold War the US and USSR stopped this activity.
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Radioactive-Iodine appears to be the only material that the government accepts as directly related to nuclear testing. This is of course totally inconsistent with the aftermath of the Chernobyl accident and the major secret studies of children’s teeth that have been conducted for many years and the government hysteria over home-radon.
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If you were born between 1930 and 1950 you were probably consuming large amounts of milk during the 1940’s and 1950’s. That would make you between 75 and 55 now. So the bottom-line is that those most affected by the milk issue will soon be gone. And IF the fallout is the “primary” contributor to the breast and prostate cancer rates then they should drop significantly after we’re gone. The tobacco time-frame is shifted by approximately 20 years and there are considerable differences in smoking rates between men and women over time. Also it appears that tobacco may continue to be a problem even without the fallout component. A key indicator of the connection was made many years ago in studying and comparing uranium miners who smoked with those who didn’t smoke with non-miners.
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This hypothesis makes sense from a government point of view. It was the government(s) that did the testing, they had massive data in the 1960’s that they acted upon, they could not fix what was already consumed, and admitting the cause-and-effect relationship would have resulted in massive costs and adverse reactions from the populace. Perhaps someone some day will use the FofI Act to get all the data JFK had when he made the most important decision of his life and ours.
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