Guest guest Posted June 30, 2009 Report Share Posted June 30, 2009 I decided to look further into the xray complications and found the following......I hightlighted the interesting part for me....the link to the full article is below. Interesting right? The link between exposure of fetuses to radiation and childhood cancer is well documented (Int J Cancer; 46, 362-365, 1990. British J of Cancer; 62 (1): 152-68, July 1990). In Health Shock (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall 1982), M Weitz claims that the x-rays given to about a quarter of all pregnant women during the 1950s and 1960s " caused between 5 and 10 per cent of all childhood cancers in America and Western Europe " . In Medicine on Trial (Pantheon), Inlander et al add that x-rays can also cause " major birth defects, including small head size, mental retardation, skeletal deformities, and eye and heart defects " . They also cite a claim by Goffman and Egan O'Connor (X-Rays: Health Effects of Common Exams, San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1985) that radiation can cause " non specific infant mortality during the first year of life, and often the first week " .http://www.wddty.com/x-rays.html Charmaine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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