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Another Study Links Fluoride to Bone Cancer
New York – April 29, 2009
Blood fluoride levels were significantly higher in
patients with osteosarcoma than in control groups,
according to research published in
Biological Trace Element
Research (April 2009). Osteosarcoma, a
rare bone cancer, occurs mostly in children and young
adult.
Randhu and colleagues measured serum fluoride levels
in three equal groups of age-matched and sex-matched
patients. Group one had osteosarcoma; group two had
non-osteosarcoma bone tumors; and group three had
musculo-skeletal pain.(1)
“Mean serum fluoride concentration was found
to be significantly higher in patients with
osteosarcoma as compared to the other two
groups,” write Randhu’s team.
“(T)his report proves a link between raised
fluoride levels in serum and osteosarcoma,” they
write.
This reinforces a 2006 published Harvard study by
Bassin showing a link between water fluoridation and
osteosarcoma in young boys. (2)
A 1992 New Jersey Department of Health study shows
osteosarcoma rates higher among young males in
fluoridated vs. unfluoridated regions of New Jersey.
(3)
More studies link fluoride to bone and other cancers
but are downplayed or ignored by government officials.
(4)(5)
Bone defects similar to bone cancer were detected in
fluoridated Newburgh NY children as early as 1955.
Newburgh is home of the first human health fluoridation
experiment begun in 1945.
According to Christopher Bryson in The Fluoride
Deception. “A radiologist, Dr. John Caffey of
Columbia University, called the defects
‘striking’ in their
‘similarity’ to bone cancer… and
seen more than twice as frequently among boys in
Newburgh as among boys in nonfluoridated Kingston [the
control city].” (6)
In 2006, the prestigious National Research Council
review of fluoride/fluoridation toxicology found a
fluoride/bone cancer link plausible.
“If governments truly want to save money,
stopping fluoridation is a no-brainer. It would save
money, preserve health and teeth,” says attorney
Paul Beeber, President, New York State Coalition
Opposed to Fluoridation.
In 2005, 11 Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
employee unions, representing over 7000 environmental
and public health professionals called for a moratorium
on fluoridation programs across the country and asked
EPA management to recognize fluoride as posing a
serious risk of causing cancer in people. (7)
In addition, over 2,430 professionals urge the US
Congress to stop fluoridation until Congressional
hearings are conducted, citing scientific evidence that
fluoridation, long promoted to fight tooth decay, is
ineffective and has serious health risks. See
statement:
http://www.fluoridealert.org/statement.august.2007.html
Contact: Paul Beeber, JD nyscof@aol.com
President,
New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation,
Inc
PO Box 263
Old Bethpage, NY 11804
http://www.orgsites.com/ny/nyscof
http://www.FluorideAction.Net
References:
1) Sandhu R, Lal H, Kundu ZS, Kharb
S. Serum Fluoride and Sialic
Acid Levels in Osteosarcoma. Biological
Trace Element Research Apr 24, 2009 [Epub
ahead of print]
2) Bassin E, et al. Age-specific fluoride exposure
in drinking water and osteosarcoma (United States).
Cancer Causes Control May
2006
3) Cohn PD. A Brief Report On The
Association Of Drinking Water Fluoridation And The
Incidence of Osteosarcoma Among Young
Males . New Jersey Department of Health,
(1992).
4) Fluoride and
Osteosarcoma,
http://www.fluoridealert.org/health/cancer/osteosarcoma-timeline.html
5) Fluoride and Cancer,
http://www.fluoridealert.org/health/cancer/
6) The Fluoride Deception,
by Christopher Bryson,
7) Press Release August 19, 2005, “EPA Unions
Call for Nationwide Moratorium on Fluoridation,
Congressional Hearing on Adverse Effects, Youth Cancer
Cover Up,” Contact: Dr. William Hirzy,
Vice-President NTEU Chapter 280
http://www.nteu280.org/Issues/Fluoride/Press%20Release.%20Fluoride.htm
Last updated 30 April 2009
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