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Contents
Notation.........................................................................:............. vi
Preface.................................................. vii
Foreword.............................................................................................. xi
1 Introduction ................................................................}................. 1
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2 Historical Background....................................................................... 3
The Medical Uses of Radium............................................................. 3
The Dial Painting Industry................................................................ 11
Early Findings on Health Effects of Radium..................................... 23
The Role of the Radium Cases in Radiation Protection....................... 28
3 The Postwar Studies of Radium Cases ..................... .......................... 31
The Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ................ 31
Argonne Radium Studies, 1945-1960................................................ 35
The New Jersey Radium Research Project .......................................... 51
Argonne Cancer Research Hospital and the
Argonne Radium Studies................................................................ 53
The Center for Human Radiobiology................................................. 64
Review, Ad Hoc, and Advisory Committees ....................................... 72
The Study of Plutonium and Thorium Cases................... 76
4 The Hazards of Internally Deposited Radium..................................... 79
Bone Sarcomas.................................................................................. 80
Head Carcinomas.............................................................................. 87
Multiple Myeloma............................................................................. 91
Breast Cancer..................................................................................... 94
Leukemias......................................................................................... 99
Life Shortening in the Dial Worker Population .................................. 100
Bone Changes.................................................................................... 102
5 Risk Estimates for Radium-Induced Malignancies.............................. 106
6 The Termination of the Radium Studies Program .............................. 113
References............................................................................................... 116
Appendix: Measured Radium Cases........................................................ 131
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Rowland, R. E. Radium in humans: A review of U.S. studies, report, September 1, 1994; Illinois. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1274282/m1/4/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.