Fluoride and Osteosarcoma
If ever there were a time to expose deception and start saving lives!
FLUORIDE ACTION NETWORK
http://www.FluorideAlert.Org June 18, 2009,
It has now been over three years since Professor Chester Douglass of the Harvard Dental School trashed Bassin's (his own student!) study associating fluoride exposure and osteosarcoma, with the promise that his paper (to be co-authored by Robert Hoover and Gary Whitford) - to be published in the Summer of 2006 - would refute her findings. We've been waiting and waiting, but still no paper has appeared. Meanwhile, proponents of fluoridation like, 1) Dr. Peter Cooney , the chief dental officer of Canada, 2) the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC, 2007) and 3) the South Central Strategic Health Authority in the UK, continue to cite his letter as if it were a fully fledged article scientifically rebutting Bassin's findings. So much for authorities who insist upon "peer-reviewed and published" science! ....... Paul Connett
but why bother repeating what is said so perfectly at http://www.thehealthvine.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=55&Itemid=89
Fluoride Linked to Bone Cancer
and the research was suppressed
read details at http://www.fluoridealert.org/health/cancer/fan-nrc.part1.pdf and at http://www.fluoridealert.org/health/cancer/fan-nrc.part2.pdf
Since fluoride acts as a mitogen (increasing the proliferation of osteoblasts) and its uptake in bone increases when skeletal growth is more rapid, (Gruber and Baylink, 1991; Ganong, 1995; Kleerekoper, 1996; Whitford, 1996), it is biologically plausible that fluoride exposure during specific periods of growth is associated with the subsequent development of osteosarcoma, and fluoride could either increase or decrease the rate of osteosarcoma. – Bassin (2001) p. 68.
One of the better sites discussing these issues is http://www.fluoride-osteosarcoma-law.com/fluoride_osteosarcoma.html below is a quote from the 'Osteosarcoma Legal Help' site. I strongly recommend it.
- "In 2001, the PhD dissertation produced by Elise Bassin of the Harvard School of Dental Medicine shows a strong link between fluoride and osteosarcoma. Her work indicates a statistically strong link between exposure to fluoride between the ages of six and eight (during which the ‘mid-childhood growth spurt’ takes place) and the development of osteosarcoma in young boys.
Bassin’s study is the first to detect a plausible “window of vulnerability” during which children are most susceptible to the carcinogenic risks of fluoride exposure. She also broke ground by obtaining information on the exact levels of fluoride exposure that preceded the development of osteosarcoma in her subjects. "
