Betreff: Radiation....re disruption of hair follicle....1975
Von: JCMPelican @aol.com
Datum: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 00:15:20 EST


http://docs.nrdc.org/nuclear/nuc_75110101A_12.pdf    
 
 [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......]