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16281703

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
2005-11-11
pubmed:abstractText
Many suggest that cancer and other diseases in Micronesia have been caused by nuclear testing in the Pacific. The 50-year commemoration of the March 1, 1954 Bravo thermonuclear test has rekindled interest in this area. This paper explores the documentation for, and the plausibility of, claims for disease causation by nuclear testing. Given the sheer volume of testing that the US conducted in the Pacific, it appears plausible that excess cancer would have occurred in areas of Micronesia other than the Marshall Islands. An excess of birth abnormalities in the Marshall Islands has been documented. While diabetes is not a radiogenic disease, and other cancers are generally less radiogenic than leukemia or thyroid cancer, the social and cultural effects of nuclear testing specifically, and the strategic uses to which Micronesia has been put generally, have had roles in the social production of disease. Integration into a globalized, cosmopolitan economy-with attendant phenomena such as the importation of tobacco, alcohol, foods of poor nutritional value, and new cultural morés-are also factors.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
1015-7867
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
11
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
216-21
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-7-13
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2004
pubmed:articleTitle
Cancer, reproductive abnormalities, and diabetes in Micronesia: the effect of nuclear testing.
pubmed:affiliation
Hawai'i/Pacific Basin Area Health Education Center, Office of Medical Education, & Division of Ecology and Health, University of Hawai'i John A. Burns School of Medicine, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA. seiji@hawaii.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Review