Radiation Exposure Is Only Known Cause For Thyroid Cancer

Having survived a very agressive variant of papillary thyroid cancer ( tall cell ) that had invaded my trachea, and caused me to have a total thyroidectomy, tracheal resection, internal RAI in a large dose, and 6 weeks of external beam radiation to my whole neck and mediastinum by IMRT, I have become quite eductated in this area. First of all, there are thousands of us who probably got our cancer as children when the US govt and its contractors conducted above ground nuclear testing which got into the high atmosphere, and traveled the globe with prevailing winds. There are numerous well researched articles that show where radioactive debris fell ALL OVER the US and there are NIH charts that show numbers of rads various people were exposed to from fallout, as well as from drinking milk in the 50s and early 60s that was produced in areas that had lots of fallout on the grass the cows ate, who produced the milk we drank.

There is also a Radiation Esposure Compensation Act which compensates victims of certain cancers, Thyroid being the most definitely related, and that Act of congress started just in Arizona, Nevada and New Mexico, first with Miners, then nearby victims, and has been continually amended to include victims further away. The science seems to indicate that the thyroids of folks born between 51 and 63 were more likely to take up dangerous doses of I-131 due to our young age at the time, and the fact that we were all exhorted to drink milk. ( which I always hated!).

The younger group of new diagnoses seems exactly on target with the Chernobyl disaster which put even more radiation into the atmosphere, in Belarus, In UK, in US.

When i was diagnosed at MSKCC in NYC, in 2002, there was a link to the NIH study showing numbers of rads per American depending on date of birth, state and county of residence, etc. That site was quickly removed, and no one seems to remember it was there. I did see it however, due to the lucky conincidence that I was diagnosed in 12/02 when it was a link to the hospital site.

I have also read numbers of books previously printed on the subject, some of which show exactly how many tests were conducted (100s) and where the path of the fallout went. I , for instance, was in the direct path of fallout at least 10 times during my childhood. But i also got sick ( not diagnosed for 18 years) twoo weeks after Chernobyl. No one could figure out what was wrong, but i freaked out one day, and the doctor checked my thyroid, first thing, found no evidence of abnormal TSH, and let it go at that. 18 years later, so far advanced that i lost a vocal cord, 1/2" of my windpipe, and suffered serious and permanent damage to my neck from radiation. But I am alive, and hopefully healthy. There is so much info out there that everyone ignores. Especially the govt. I spoke to a lawyer who got the US govt off on tort claims act for these tests that made so many of us sick, but there are still theories that may be viable--the coontractor's knew that the extent of the explosions would go high enuf to damage all americans alive at that time when they set them off.

By the way, I am not a nut. Just a lawyer who can't give up the ghost. Someday I will figure out a way to prove that I, as well as thousands of others should, at the very least, be included in that RECA compensation fund for getting ill as a result of above ground nuclear testing. or from Russia's negligence in letting Chrernoble blow sky high.

There will be more and more of this in the years to come. Its becoming an epidemic. My onco nurse said its the fastest rising new diagnosis in women. More than breast cancer. It isn't just the ability to detect with ultrasound, it's the fact that we are all coming of age to show these tumors that have beeen percolating for 18 or 45 years.

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