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SIMEON T. CANTRIL. M. D.
1211 MARION @TREET
SEATTLE 4, WABHINGTON
November 29, 1956
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Dr. Charles L, Dunhan, Director
Division of Biology and Nedicine
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
Washington 25, D.C.
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Dear Chuck:
I have the copy of Dagts letter to you of November 20.
Also I had an opportunity to talk with him today via telephone
when he was in Seattle. I discussed the medical exposure problem
with him namely from the standvoint that I felt that a contribution
could be made here to a possibly more accurate estimate of diagnostic x-ray exposure in this particular population of versons up
to 30 years of age, which from the genetic standpoint seems to be
a cut-off.
The various questions which are raised in the letter
of November 20 can be settled when an outline of the study is finally
decided upon. I offered mv help in preparing this outline which
will give some indication of the magnitude of the survey.
In this respect perhaps a similar survey done by James
Sterner at Eastman Kodak would be valid.
I appreciate that both
of these may give perhaps more emmhasis to diagnostic exposure than
the ceneral population in view of the medical care and preventive
programs. Im any case I think it is worth exploring to see how much
information might be gained before launching on the project.
I took the liberty to tell Dr. Norwood that I thought
you might through AEC authorize clerical assistance when the work
actually came into being. I hope that I was not overoptimistic
in this suggestion.
I regret that I could not attend the ACBM meeting of
November 26. I spent a very interesting two days at the Ann Arbor
project with Dr. Hodges and Dr. Lampe and have sent a report to Jin
Haggerty and Chuck Shilling,
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Yours sincerely,
Simeon T. Cantril, M.D.
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cc: Dr. WV. D. Norwood
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