[jcm note 3-7-07....article does not allow for copying and
pasting......small portion typed below.......do not believe portion re
"qualatatively...." refers to plutonium as does much of the rest of the
information........]
The Hot Particle Hypothesis:
A Status report
.......presented at American Nuclear Society's Annual Meeting, New
Orleans, LA, by Thomas B. Cochran, Natural Resources Council, June, 1975
I. Introduction:
"The hot particle
hypothesis" is relatively simple.
Qualatatively, the hypothesis
is when a critical tissue mass is irradiated at a sufficently
high dose, the probability of tumor production is high.........
.......Dr. Arthur Tamplin and I indicated much of the basic
support for the hypothesis derives from a number of experiments wherein
a small volume of tissue was exposed to high dosage........
.......In those experiments cancer was a frequent, almost
inevitable result.........
.......One series of experiments that was discussed in some detail
were those conducted by Dr. Roy C. Albert and co-workers on rat
skin. In those experiments, Albert
observed that radiation induced cancers were remarkably correlated with
the disruption of an architectecural unit of the skin, the hair
follicle. The cancers were induced in the
rough proportion of 1 cancer per 2000 adtrophied hair follicle when
dosage exceeded some 1000 rem...........
[Emphasis added .......in addition to important info above re hair
follicles, article refers also to granulomas.....need to
review re 21 noncaseating granulomas in daughter most likely related to
her sleeping close to two electric meters when home prior to age
18......joanne c. mueller files.....3-7-07......]