14 February 2014 (02:10 UTC-07 Tango)/13 Rabi ‘ath-Thani 1435/25 Bahman 1392/15 Bing-Yin (1st month) 4712
“We are silently irradiating ourselves to death.” Doctors Rita Redberg and Rebecca Smith-Bedman, of the University of California, went on to basically say the entire U.S. medical industry is incompetent: “A recent study at one New York hospital found that nearly a third of its patients undergoing multiple cardiac imaging tests were getting a cumulative effective dose of more than 100 millisieverts of radiation — equivalent to 5,000 chest X-rays. And last year, a survey of nuclear cardiologists found that only 7 percent of stress tests were done using a “stress first” protocol (examining an image of the heart after exercise before deciding whether it was necessary to take one of it at rest), which can decrease radiation exposure by up to 75 percent.”
“Patients with Hodgkin lymphoma have a 20-fold increased risk of mesothelioma after radiotherapy.”–Clinicopathologic Characteristics of Malignant Mesotheliomas Arising in Patients With a History of Radiation for Hodgkin and Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma
A new study (see quote above) has surprising results, saying most new cases of mesothelioma are not caused by asbestos, but by exposure to radiation! Specifically, in the case of lymphoma people who got radiation treatment ended up getting mesothelioma, sarcomas of soft tissue and bone, stomach, breast and/or thyroid cancers! By the way, the study by Brigham and Women’s Hospital was published back in November 2013, where was the main stream news media?
If you think about it, cancer cases have been increasing as more and more stupid people are duped into undergoing medical radiation treatments for a variety of things. ‘Simple’ x-rays, MRIs and even angeoplasty are bombarding you with radiation!
In Tennessee, former and current employees at the incompetent Methodist Medical Center are suing after being exposed to excessive levels of radiation put out by the hospital’s CT scanner. Here’s what happened: CT scan operators and recording equipment are supposed to be protected by a radiation proof wall. Employees knew something wasn’t right when the recording equipment was failing. Turns out the wall between the CT scanner and recording/observation room was not radiation proof! Now realize that people are put into these massive electromagnetic radiation generators! (Mmmm, now what was that about all those TSA scanners at the airports?)
In Washington DC, the Medical Imaging and Technology Alliance (MITA) has issued new rules for the use of medical radiation, admitting that previous treatments are dangerous: “….this standard will…..reduce normal tissue irradiation so patients can reap the benefits of this treatment without the risk of damaging adjacent healthy tissue. The RT-1 standard defines specific technical ‘fail safe’ provisions…..in a safe and effective manner”
The California Dental Association (CDA) has changed its rules for taking x-rays of people’s teeth. It’s all about reducing medical radiation risks: “Dentists have a responsibility to protect their patients and staff, and to make sure necessary exposures are kept as low as reasonably achievable.”-James Stephens, CDA
Out of Canada, a study warns that treating prostate cancer with radiation causes other cancers: “Cancers of the rectum, for example, cancers of the bladder, cancers of the bloodstream that occurred…we think due to the radiation exposure.”-Robert Nam, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Also out of Canada, researchers are saying radioactive mammograms do nothing to prevent cancer deaths in women!!!
Back at the beginning of 2013, researchers from United Kingdom reported that radiation treatment for breast cancer resulted in increased risk of heart problems for women.
Researchers in New Zealand are now warning that a skin protectant should be used during all medical radiation treatment. The University of Otago Wellington’s Department of Radiation Therapy says from day one of radiation therapy people must protect their skin. In the past five years, five hospitals were randomly studied. The Kiwi researchers also point out that the international medical community is grossly ignorant about the effects of radiation treatments!
I’ve always asked this question since I was a kid: “If radiation causes cancer, why do doctors treat cancer with radiation?”
In Japan, the Fukushima prefectural Dental Association, along with Tohoku University and Ohu University, has begun a five year study of the effects of the ongoing nuclear disaster there, on children’s teeth. Radiation collects in baby teeth. Researchers hope to collect 4-thousand teeth per year, as they fall out when the adult teeth come in. The baby teeth will be definitive proof as to how much strontium and cesium people are being exposed to.
In May 2011, the UN’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) declared cell phones a Group 2B human carcinogen, because they emit radiofrequency electromagnetic fields (RF-EMFs). Then, in 2013 a new study backed up the UN’s claim. The researchers surveyed Swedish people, with brain cancer, about their cell phone use. They also compared land line phone users to 2G and 3G cell phone users. Land line phone users had an incredibly small rate of brain cancer, while users of 3G phones had the highest rate of brain cancer. This could be because the more powerful your cell phone is the more RF-EMF it puts out!
In India, the mayor of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, Sunil Prabhu, is refusing to allow the installation of 4G cell phone towers saying “…we don’t know up to what level the towers will emanate radiation. Hence, we have instructed the administration to find out the possible effects of the same on residents’ health.”
Landlords in the United Arab Emirates have revealed that people are refusing to live in apartments near cell phone towers.
By the way, a study out of U.K. says wearing tinfoil, or aluminum foil hats (sorry Number 9 from Futurama), does not block radiation from cell phones! However, they also said cell phones are safe!