Study Links Fluoride to Bone Cancer in Men

WebMD ^ | Friday, April 07, 2006 | Daniel J. DeNoon

[presidio9]

Boys who drink fluoridated water have an increased risk of a deadly bone cancer, a new study suggests.

Elise Bassin, DDS, completed the study in 2001 for her doctoral dissertation at Harvard, where she now is clinical instructor in oral health policy and epidemiology. The study finally was published in the May issue of Cancer Causes and Control.

Bassin and colleagues' major finding: Boys who grew up in communities that added at least moderate levels of fluoride to their water got bone cancer -- osteosarcoma -- more often than boys who drank water with little or no fluoride.

The risk peaked for boys who drank more highly fluoridated water between the ages of 6 and 8 years -- a time at which children undergo a major growth spurt. By the time they were 20, these boys got bone cancer 5.46 times more often than boys with the lowest consumption. No effect was seen for girls.

In a prepared statement provided to WebMD, Bassin says she "was surprised by the results."

"Having a background in dentistry and dental public health, [I] was taught that fluoride at recommended levels is safe and effective for the prevention of dental [cavities]," Bassin says in the statement. "All of [our analyses] were consistent in finding an association between fluoride levels in drinking water and an increased risk of osteosarcoma for males diagnosed before age 20, but not consistently for girls."

It's not surprising that Bassin found a risk for boys but not for girls. Osteosarcoma is about 50% more common in males than in females. And boys tend to have more fluoride in their bones than girls.

However, a commentary accompanying Bassin's article warns to take her findings with a grain of salt. Ironically, it is from Harvard professor Chester W. Douglass, DMD, PhD.

[beltfed308]

So the General in Dr. Strangelove was right?

[nuconvert]

But did they have fewer cavities?

[Kay]

Hmmm.

Fat people drink diet soda. Does this mean the diet soda made them fat?

[Names Ash Housewares]

Dang commie preverts!

[tumblindice]

"Mandrake . . ."
"Yes, General?"
"Fluoride. It gets into our mucus membranes."

[norraad]

..ah, ...actually, ms. purdy, it does.

google for details, velly interesting chemistry.

[jiggyboy]

According to the American Cancer Society, every year some 900 Americans -- 400 of them children and teens -- get osteosarcoma.

Always the same BS. The "FIVE FOLD INCREASE!" means that instead of being a two-in-a-million shot of being diagnosed with it, it might be ten-in-a-million.

Once a year, try to guess what the last digit of the closing DJII will be for each day of that week. That's your probability.

[talleyman]

I didn't see a quantification of the increased risk in the article - leads me to believe it's somewhere in the .000001 range...

[satchmodog9]

How can you even make a leap like that from something so rare. Sixty or so people getting bone cancer in a year is reason to stop putting fluoride in the water. If this dumbass got a PHD, we are all worthy of one.

[Petronski]

"Okay, but if you don't get the President of the United States on the phone, you're going to have to answer to the Coca-Cola company."   ---Major Bat Guano (if that is his real name).

[TChris]

Once a year, try to guess what the last digit of the closing DJII will be for each day of that week. That's your probability. (Emphasis added)

Umm... I believe that's a one in ten chance. :-)

[patriciaruth]

There's another side effect of floridation that isn't discussed much, and that is the tendency for it to make the teeth and bones stronger but also more brittle.

Over the last 2 decades I've seen chunks of my teeth simple sheer off and need crowns, and even had a big molar split down the middle and need an implant. I have been wondering about this, was it floride or was it the fillings acting like wedges with chewing pounding the wedge filling more into the tooth, which then eventually splits.

About 15 years ago doctors got warned to only have children put a pea size amount of floridated toothpaste on the toothbrush. Seemed the little kids were swallowing all the toothpaste not having master the art of spitting and rinsing it out after brushing with it.

The more you know, the more confused you become.

[shield]

If you've got aspartame as the sweeter....it's been proven it actually fattens them even further.

OBTW, fluoride is one dangerous additive...overtime causing cancer. When fluoride was added, this was known. Then you've got another additive chloride...this is another one that is very unhealthy for the body.

I drink distilled water...if I ever have to drink water with chloride in it and on occasion this happens...how my body reacts to it...is extremely surprising. My body feels like someone is blowing me up like a balloon. Try not comsuming any water with chloride in it for several weeks, then go back to the water with chloride in it...it'll surprise the heck out of you.

[Celebur]

>OBTW, fluoride is one dangerous additive...overtime causing cancer. When fluoride was added, this was known. Then you've got another additive chloride...this is another one that is very unhealthy for the body.<


I'm guessing you mean chlorine.

But if chloride affects you so drastically, then stay away from table salt (sodium chloride).

[ContraryMary]

I'm sure this will bring out the tinfoil hat crowd.

[robertpaulsen]

Ripper: Have you ever heard of a thing called fluoridation? Fluoridation of water?
Mandrake: Ah, yes, I have heard of that, Jack. Yes.
Ripper: Well do you now what it is?
Mandrake: No. No, I don't know what it is. No.
Ripper: Do you realize that fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous communist plot we have ever had to face?

[jiggyboy]

For each day it is. You gotta get all five right to be 100,000-to-1.

[nyscof]

Harvard Study Shows Fluoridation-Cancer Link

New Study Is One of Many Linking Fluoride to Cancer



New York -- April 7, 2006 -- Fluoridation is linked to bone cancer (osteosarcoma) in young boys reports the May 2006 Harvard peer-reviewed journal, “Cancer Causes and Control.”



This fluoridation-cancer study, by Elise Bassin, PhD and colleagues, follows on the heels of the National Academy of Sciences National Research Council’s (NRC) report revealing the scientific evidence showing how fluoridation can harm subsets of the population.



“Monitor your own intake. [high water drinkers], the elderly and people with severe renal deficiency who have trouble excreting fluoride in their urine are likely to have increased bone-fluoride concentrations," reports the Chicago Tribune. High fluoride levels damage bones and teeth.(2)



Many studies link fluoride to cancer. Examples:



1954 Taylor reports more tumors and shorter lifespan in fluoride treated mice. (3)



1956 Landmark 10-year Newburgh/Kingston fluoridation study shows more cortical bone defects (a suspected precursor to osteosarcoma) in children drinking fluoridated water. (4)

1977 Burk-Yiamouyiannis show cancer death rates in the 10 largest fluoridated U.S. cities were higher and rose faster vs. the 10 largest nonfluoridated U.S. cities after corrections for age, race, and sex.. (5)

1977 National Academy of Sciences expresses concern about a possible water fluoridation/osteosarcoma link based on the Newburgh /Kingston cortical bone defect evidence. (6)

1977 Congressional hearings based on the Burk/Yiamouyiannis findings lead to fluoride cancer testing in rodents by the National Toxicology Program (NTP) (6)



1990 NTP reports fluoride is an “equivocal” (may or may not) cause of cancer. EPA drinking water senior toxicologist, William Marcus PhD, reports results were suspiciously downgraded in the final report.(7) Marcus was fired for stating the truth but rehired with back pay under the whistle-blower’s act.



1990 National Cancer Institute finds more osteosarcoma in young males in fluoridated vs unfluoridated areas; but finds cause to dismiss the results.(6)

1990 Procter & Gamble (P&G) makes public a 1981-1983 study showing more bone tumors in fluoride-treated rats but claims they were not statistically significant. Another P&G study finds a significant increase in benign bone tumors in fluoride treated mice. (6)

1992 New Jersey Department of Health study shows osteosarcoma rates higher among young males in fluoridated vs unfluoridated regions of New Jersey (6). The report’s title was changed to obscure connection to fluoridation.

1993 Yiamouyiannis’ analysis of National Cancer Institute's cancer data confirms fluoridation/osteosarcoma link in males. (6)

2001 Bassin’s Harvard Dissertation shows osteosarcoma in boys in fluoridated areas is five times higher than in non-fluoridated areas.(6). Her dissertation is uncovered in the rare books section of library. Fluoridationists insist the study should be ignored because it’s not published and it’s only one study.

2004 Chester Douglass, Bassin’s Harvard dissertation advisor claims there’s no evidence of a fluoridation-osteosarcoma link in written testimony to the NRC.

2006 NRC Panel finds cancer/fluoride link plausible

2006 (May issue) Bassin’s osteosarcoma/fluoridation study is published in “Cancer Causes and Control,” along with a letter to the editor from Chester Douglass who cites unpublished, unfinished, non-peer-reviewed data in an attempt to downplay Bassin’s peer-reviewed published findings of a significant link between osteosarcoma in boys and water fluoridation..

“EPA has more than enough evidence to shut down fluoridation, right now, with a special advisory,” says retired EPA scientist, Robert Carton, PhD. “The safe drinking water act requires the EPA to act to protect all populations from known or anticipated harm (8),” says Carton.



SOURCE: NYS Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation, Inc

PO Box 263

Old Bethpage, NY 11804

http://www.orgsites.com/ny/nyscof

http://www.FluorideAction.Net

nyscof@aol.com



References:

1) “Age-specific fluoride exposure in drinking water and osteosarcoma (United States), by Bassin et al, Cancer Causes Control, May 2006



Environmental Working Group News Release on Bassin Study

http://www.ewg.org/issues/fluoride/20060405/index.php

2) “Researchers pour dose of worry in fluoridated water,” Julie Deardorff, April 2, 2006,

http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/health/chi-0604010266apr02,1,4385156.story?coll=chi-health-hed



3) Taylor, A: Sodium Fluoride in the Drinking Water of Mice. Dent. Digest, 60:170-172, 1954



4) Schlesinger E. R. et al.: "Newburgh - Kingston Caries - Fluorine Study. XIII. Pediatric findings after ten years", J. Am. Dent. Assoc. 52 (1956) 296;



5) Yiamouyiannis J., Burk D. (1977): "Fluoridation and cancer. Age dependence of cancer mortality related to artificial fluoridation"; Fluoride 10:101



6) http://www.fluoridealert.org/health/cancer/osteosarcoma-timeline.html

7) http://www.fluoridealert.org/health/cancer/ntp/news8.html



8) This MCLG explanation from the EPA's website (accessed April 5, 2006):



http://www.epa.gov/ogwdw/standard/setting.html



After reviewing health effects studies, EPA sets a Maximum Contaminant Level Goal (MCLG), the maximum level of a contaminant in drinking water at which no known or anticipated adverse effect on the health of persons would occur, and which allows an adequate margin of safety. MCLGs are non-enforceable public health goals. Since MCLGs consider only public health and not the limits of detection and treatment technology, sometimes they are set at a level which water systems cannot meet. When determining an MCLG, EPA considers the risk to sensitive subpopulations (infants, children, the elderly, and those with compromised immune systems) of experiencing a variety of adverse health effects.





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[napscoordinator]

As a man, we must take all cancer money and move it to bone and prostate studies. Forget all the rest...sarc.