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Contributors: Jay M. Gould,

Publisher: Four Walls Eight Windows

Place of Publication: New York Publication Year: 1996

Subjects: Nuclear Reactors--Health Aspects, Radioactive Fallout--Health Aspects, Immunosuppression--Risk Factors, Immunodeficiency--Complications

Table of contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Foreword 1

Overview and Summary 15 (see below)

1. Introduction: Fallout and County Breast Cancer Rates 23

2. Fallout and Immune Deficiency 33

3. Low Birthweights and Baby Boomer Immune Deficiency 67

4. Breast Cancer Mortality and Emissions from Nuclear Reactors 87

5. Geographic Differences in Breast Cancer Mortality since 1950 101

6. Why the National Cancer Institute Failed to Find Increased Cancer Risk Near Nuclear Reactors 117

7. The Nature of Increased Cancer Risk Near Reactors 127

8. Fallout and Breast Cancer 137

9. Is It Too Late? 191

Appendix A: How to Calculate Breast Cancer Mortality Rates Near Nuclear Reactors 199

Appendix B: Sixty Reactor Sites and Computer Generated Maps of Nearby Counties 203

Appendix C: Radioactive Materials Released from Nuclear Power Plants 301

Appendix D: How the National Cancer Institute Confirmed that Proximity to Reactors Increases Breast Cancer Risk 321

References 331

Index

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Publisher Notes

From: http://www.biblio.com/books/104269161.html

Why do women in "nuclear" counties have such a hugely inflated risk of breast cancer? Why are there larger numbers of live premature births today than forty years ago? Why do AIDS and other immune deficiency syndromes seem to be related more to where you live than how you live? The answers, at least in part, lie in nuclear fallout patterns. In The Enemy Within, Dr. Jay Gould uses data from the National Cancer Institute, state health departments, and the Center for Disease Control to show through tangible statistical evidence that residents of nuclear counties—the 1,321 counties within 100 miles of a reactor—will suffer disproportionately from environmentally caused diseases. In the fifty years since the nuclear age began, over 1.5 million American women have died of breast cancer—an increase of almost three-fold in some regions; for the period from 1945-1965, fallout from atmospheric bomb tests was accompanied by a 40 percent increase in underweight live births; and the associated damage to the immune response of baby boomers born from 1945-1965 precipitated current immune deficiency epidemics, such as AIDS. The Enemy Within provides an inside look at the disregarded costs of nuclear power—costs we can no longer afford to pay—and the only reasonable solution: to ban the operation of nuclear power stations and nuclear bomb testing completely. Dr. Jay Gould is a former member of the EPA Science Advisory Board and author of five books, including Deadly Deceit (Four Walls Eight Windows, 1991) and The Quality of Life in Residential Neighborhoods.