Cowan:
Can you through bioassay determine if there is abnormally high
levels of iodine-131?
Bair:
Cowan:
Bair:
You could do that, yes.
Well, wouldn't that be a probability?
That would increase the probability that it was caused by radiation
but not assure that it was caused by radiation.
Cowan:
Bair:
But it would give a probability?
But it would increase the probability.
(Background conversation - Alice and other voices.
Alice was trying to
‘translate the above exchange into Marshallese.)
Bair:
You won't find radioactive iodine in a cancerous thyroid because the
thyroid, if cancer was caused by radiation, the thyroid would have had the
iodine many years ago and now it is gone.
You cannot look at a thyroid
cancer and measure radio-jodine in it unless the person has received it
recently.
(and)
If that is the case it was not caused, the tumor was not
caused by radiation.
Phillip Muller:
I have a question.
I think I heard you clearly say that
iodine is the cause of the thyroid, possibly caused by high iodine.
said that life span of iodine is relatively short.
You
Do we have any
explanation as to why some of these thyroid cases have taken long before
they developed?
For instance they didn't happen the same year that fallout
took place but relatively sometime thereafter.
Ray:
That is the point Dr. Bair was making.
Do you have an explanation?
Maybe you had better have
your question translated first.
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