Guest guest Posted April 25, 2006 Report Share Posted April 25, 2006 ADVERTISING | CLASSIFIEDS | ABOUT US | News Home Cambridge Edition College Crime and Courts Faculty Local News University News Special Packages Today's Print Edition ADVERTISEMENT: Fluoride May Cause Cancer Dental Health student's study contradicts her adviser's findings Published On Monday, April 10, 2006 1:29 AM By DORIS A. HERNANDEZ Crimson Staff Writer ARTICLE TOOLS: E-mail this Article Printer Friendly Version Write a Letter to the Editor A study associating drinking fluoridated water with osteosarcoma, a rare malignant bone tumor, was published last Wednesday on " Cancer Causes and Control " , an online peer-review journal of Harvard University. Elise B. Bassin, a clinical instructor in Oral Health Policy and Epidemiology, who led the study, wrote in an e-mail that she found a significant relationship between fluoride and cancer-contradicting the findings of her dissertation adviser Chester s, the chair of the Oral Health Policy and Epidemiology Department at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine. " We found an association between fluoride levels in drinking water during childhood and osteosarcoma for males diagnosed before age 20 years, " she wrote. s' $1.3 million dollar, 15 year study did not find a link between drinking fluoridated water and developing osteosarcoma. He said Bassin's study is a subset of his study and that he had not been able to replicate her results. The Environmental Working Group, a Washington D.C. based advocacy group, recently filed an ethics complaint against s because he allegedly cited Bassin's study in his report, despite the opposite conclusions reached by the two studies. s said he just listed Bassin's study as a related publication and not a reference. s has received widespread criticism for defending the use of fluoride while being editor of a publication funded by a fluoride toothpaste maker. s wrote a letter in " Cancer Causes and Control, " where Bassin's work was published, warning readers to take the results of Bassin's study with discretion. " Readers are cautioned not to generalize and over-interpret results... before making conclusions, and before influencing any related policy decisions, " he wrote. -Staff writer Doris A. can be reached at dahernan@.... -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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