Now available:
Proven, Preventable Cause Of This Disease. 2nd Edition.
422 pages. April 1996. $17 per copy. No extra fee for shipping and handling on prepaid orders. Please add $1.36 sales tax for orders within California.
International Standard Book Number: ISBN 0-932682-96-0. Library
of Congress Catalog Number: LC 96-2453.
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"Highly recommended," wrote the Library
Journal (August 1995) about the 1st Edition, and the
journal Choice (December 1995) selected it for both college
and professional libraries. The 2nd Edition
adds 80 pages of text
and references providing decisive evidence against claims that xrays
are "safe" at low levels, and responding to critiques of the 1st
Edition. Both editions evaluate personal and national radiation
risk from mammography.
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This book, for families and their physicians, is not about early
detection of breast-cancer. It is about
prevention. Dr. Gofman shows that past exposure to
ionizing radiation --- primarily medical xrays --- is responsible
for about 75 percent of breast-cancer cases (USA).
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But today's task is not to reject medical uses of radiation,
which are often very baneficial. The task is to obtain those
benefits with half the harm, by requiring quality assurance
systems which can cut today's average xray dosage in half.
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Getting the job done is an ethical imperative, because careless
radiation overdosing has deadly aggregate consequences for
helpless patients. This book delivers both the historical and
current evidence needed by cancer groups in order to organize
elimination of such carelessness.
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"Every action which reduces unnecessary irradiation is
guaranteed to prevent a share of future cancers which
would otherwise occur," says Gofman. "It is wrong to
wait. Radiation-induced cancers diagnosed 5 to 50 years from
today, are being generated by careless overdosing now."