URANIUM CAUSES CANCER

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Uranium Causes Cancer

International Medical Veritas Association

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Uranium binds to human DNA. The average exposure

for many British citizens after the last Iraq war

was calculated at 26 million particles of uranium oxide.[1]

 

Dr. Chris Busby

 

 

 

Uranium - when manifested as a radioactive metal - has profound

and debilitating effects on human DNA. These radioactive effects have

been well understood for decades, but there has been considerable

debate and little agreement concerning the possible health risks

associated with low-grade uranium ore (yellowcake) and depleted

uranium. The Environmental Protection Agency and the Nuclear

Regulatory Commission treat depleted uranium as a hazardous material,

but the Department of Defense continues to use it.

 

 

 

" Depleted (DU) uranium is one of the largest categories of

radioactive waste produced for the nuclear weapons and nuclear

reactor industry. It is highly toxic to humans, both chemically as a

heavy metal and radiological as an alpha particle emitter which is

very dangerous when taken internally, " writes Rosalie Bertell, Ph.

D., GNSH, Canadian Epidemiologist, whose specialty is in higher

mathematics, with applications in the radiobiology and the biomedical

sciences.[2]

 

Research on the health effects of exposure to

depleted uranium in military occupations is limited.[3]

 

Maria Cantwell

 

United States Senator

 

A new study, conducted by biochemist Dr. Diane Stearns at

Northern Arizona University shows that, separate from any radiation

risks, cells exposed to uranium will bond with the metal chemically.

A radioisotope of an element will bind best to the same substrates

which a non-radioactive isotope of the same element will bind. Dr.

Stearns has established that when cells are exposed to uranium, the

uranium binds to DNA and the cells acquire mutations, triggering a

whole slew of protein replication errors, some of which can lead to

various cancers. Stearns' research, published in the journals

Mutagenesis and Molecular Carcinogenesis, confirms what many have

suspected for some time - that uranium can damage DNA as a heavy

metal, independent of its radioactive properties. The biochemical

reaction of heavy metals can cause genetic mutations, which in turn

can curtail cell growth and cause cancer. Heavy metals that are also

radioactive amplify this effect and can cause distortions in shape

and thus function even of red blood cells.[4]

 

 

 

What has not been widely understood is the extent to which

radioactive particles of different kinds become concentrated in

various body organs like other heavy metals do. Dr. Stearns is

affirming that once inside the body, radioactive particles behaved

just like their non-radioactive natural counterparts. The isotope

strontium, for instance, which is similar to calcium, settled in

bones and teeth. Radioactive iodine behaved like regular iodine,

seeking out and concentrating in the thyroid gland, an organ which is

vital in regulating the growth and functioning of the human body.

 

 

 

" Essentially, if you get a heavy metal stuck on DNA, you can get

a mutation, " Stearns explained. While other heavy metals are known to

bind to DNA, Stearns and her team were the first to identify this

characteristic with uranium. " The health effects of uranium really

haven't been studied since the Manhattan Project (the development of

the atomic bomb in the early 1940s). But now there is more interest

in the health effects of depleted uranium. People are asking

questions now, " Stearns said.

 

 

 

In vitro studies have shown that the risk of cancer induction from

internalized DU exposure may be comparable to other

biologically reactive and carcinogenic heavy-metal compounds.[5]

 

 

 

Uranium as uranyl ion UO2++ has a great affinity for DNA

phosphate. The affinity constant is about 1010 (Nielsen 1992). In

cells which have internalized a submicron uranium particle, the

equilibrium ionic concentration of uranium will be high enough to

have saturated the DNA in the cell by binding to phosphate. This

focusing of the radiation on the DNA may be the cause of many

anomalous mutagenic effects which show themselves in cell cultures

(e.g. Miller et al 2002, 2004) in laboratory animals (e.g. Paquet

2005, IRSN 2005) and in the many reports of ill health associated

with exposure to uranium (e.g. Craft et al 2005, Zaire et al 1997)

 

 

 

Uranium is a powerful genotoxic stressor.

 

 

 

Recently Dr. Busby pointed out that the uranium may focus

external natural background radiation on the DNA and enhances its

radiological effect. Meaning uranium will amplify natural background

gamma radiation owing to its high atomic number and its ability to

convert the gamma radiation into local photoelectrons.

 

 

 

Though the material (depleted uranium) generally used by the

U.S. Department of Defense is 40 percent less radioactive than

natural uranium it is not something you want to be exposed to. The

main cancer risk from inhaled depleted uranium would be from tiny

insoluble particles lodged deep in the lungs. According to the

inhalation-retention model constructed by the International

Commission on Radiation Protection (ICRP), 15 percent of an insoluble

inhaled uranium oxide aerosol could be retained in the lungs for more

than a year.

 

 

 

Pulmonary concentration of DU can be quantitated as

late as nine years after inhalational exposure.[6]

 

Col. Asaf Durakovic, MC USAR

 

 

 

When the tank-busting bombs explode, the depleted uranium oxidizes

into microscopic fragments. When uranium burns, the high temperatures

created act to oxidize uranium metal to a series of complex oxides,

predominately depleted triuranium octaoxide (U3O8), but also depleted

uranium dioxide (UO2), and depleted uranium trioxide (UO3). These

ultra small particles float through the air like carcinogenic dust,

and will be carried on the desert winds practically forever. When the

lethal dust is inhaled it sticks to the fibers of the lungs, and

eventually begins to wreck havoc on the body: tumors, hemorrhages,

ravaged immune systems and leukemia can result.

 

 

 

A small study of British, Canadian and US

veterans with Gulf War illness found that just

over half tested positive for depleted uranium.[7]

 

Reuters News

 

 

 

Dr. Sarah Mayhill says, " It can be inhaled by soldiers and

civilians, sticks to the lining of the lungs, is taken up by cells of

the immune systems and get into lymph glands, bone, brain, hormone

producing glands, ovaries and testes. It stays in these organs for

many decades and is only very slowly excreted in urine. " That these

particles were found thousands of miles away from the battlefield in

England within days of the bombing in Iraq speaks of a catastrophe

that has hundreds of millions, even billions of people breathing in

this lethal stuff. What kind of arrogance or insanity would expose so

many people to serious danger? It's the kind cooked up by the

arrogant elite in both England and the United States who live so high

above the rest of us that they see us as nothing more than swine.

 

 

 

According to Dr. Katsuma Yagasaki " DU dust-like particles can

enter human bodies, and once taken into the body, they will become

tens of millions times more hazardous. " When this uranium oxide dust

is in the lungs or elsewhere in the body, it is in contact with

living tissue, bombarding that tissue with low level radiation.

Yagasaki continues saying, " One alpha particle passes hundred

thousand atoms before it stops, blowing out hundred thousand

electrons constituting a molecule. The destruction (ionization) of

molecules will damage DNA, or will induce mutation in the cellular

structure itself. There will be a great possibility of only one

depleted uranium particle causing cancers and organ disorder. With

the half-life of DU being 4.5 billion years, there will be almost no

change in the rate of alpha emission 10,000 or 100,000 years later.

This means once DU is inside the body, one will remain exposed to

radiation as long as he/she lives unless it is discharged, while the

environment continues to be polluted forever. "

 

 

 

Dr. John W. Gofman, Professor Emeritus of Molecular and Cell

Biology in the University of California at Berkeley, has written

extensively about the effort to belittle the menace of low-level

radiation. People associated with the nuclear and medical industries

assert falsely, " there is no evidence that exposure to low-dose

radiation causes any cancer --- the risk is only theoretical, " or the

risk is " utterly negligible, " or " the accidental exposures were below

the safe level, " and even " there is reasonably good evidence that

exposure to low-dose radiation is beneficial and lowers the cancer

rate. " By any reasonable standard of scientific proof the weight of

the human evidence shows decisively that cancer is inducible by

ionizing radiation even at the lowest possible dose and dose-rate ---

which means that the risk is never theoretical.

 

 

 

Nobel Laureate Linus Pauling described this process as

follows: " The rays of high-energy radiation are like little bullets

that shoot through the body. They tear electrons away from molecules

and through subsequent reactions of the molecular ions that are

formed, the molecules may be broken in two, some atoms may be torn

away from them, some new molecules may be formed. The dose of 500

roentgens that usually leads to death by acute radiation sickness

causes about 500,000 changed molecules to be formed in each cell. If

any of the special molecules [that control the process by which the

cell divides] happen to be damaged by a single little bullet of

radiation from a single radioactive atom, it may be changed in such a

way as to cause the cell to divide much more rapidly than the other

cells. This cell may then produce a colony of rapidly dividing cells,

which in the course of time would outnumber the normal cells of that

type. Then the human being may die from cancer - perhaps leukemia,

bone cancer, some other kind of cancer - caused by the single

radioactive atom that produced the single little bullet of radiation. "

 

 

 

Radioactive materials, plutonium in particular, affect the deepest

level of

the human being - bone marrow, DNA, genetic structure, inner organs

and the

deepest of emotions. The message is clear. We have created a horrific

heritage.

 

 

Jeremy Sherr

 

The

Homeopathic Proving of Plutonium Nitricum

 

 

 

After everything you have read about nuclear radiation and

depleted uranium armaments, and the military and medical industrial

complexes denial of the danger, reflect on this information. Back in

1943, a memo to Manhattan Project's General Leslie Groves from Drs.

Conant, Compton and Urey extolled the lethal possibilities of

radioactive materials " as a Gas Warfare Instrument. The

material . . . ground into particles of microscopic size and . . .

distributed in the form of a dust or smoke or dissolved in liquid, by

ground-fired projectiles, land vehicles, airplanes, or aerial

bombs . . . would be inhaled by personnel. The amounts necessary to

cause death to a person inhaling the material is extremely small. "

 

 

 

Depleted uranium is a deadly toy

in the hands of the ruling bloodlines.

Arun

Shrivastava

 

 

 

Again we find the American government involved in things that

are horrifying to our sense of humanity. Instead of being champions

of human rights and peace we find them to be nuclear terrorists.

Obviously their obsession with keeping the bomb out of Iranian hands

is a case of you are whatever disturbs you. The greatest user of

weapons of mass destruction just cannot stand the thought of anyone

else using and killing people with nuclear materials. It would be

much more understandable if the Americans were leading the world away

from atomic terror by themselves proposing an end to the nuclear age

and a burying in the deep desert of all radioactive materials.

 

 

 

The question of the dispersion of uranium aerosols from the

battlefield is

of significant legal interest, since if a radioactive weapon resulted

in the

general contamination of the public in the country of deployment or

elsewhere, the weapon would be classifiable as one of indiscriminate

effect.

 

Dr. Chris Busby

 

 

 

Almost forty years ago there was a movie called On the Beach and

it showed the horror of massive radioactive clouds closing in on

Australia, the last holdout of civilization. Today we have been

conditioned away from our fears of nuclear fallout so the American

and British governments get away with using depleted uranium without

fear of public backlash. In the next few chapters we will be talking

about natural treatments for radiation exposure but the best

treatment is to avoid exposure in the first place. In the above movie

was a lonely submarine crew fleeing from the radioactive holocaust

with nowhere to go. If there is war in Iran instead of taking a

submarine, inhabitants of the north should be thinking of taking

flights to the southern hemisphere and staying there for a few

months. And all of us, no matter where we live should be prepared

with substances that will assist in removing both radioactive

particles as well as heavy metals from our bodies.

 

 

 

Think again, think seven times again before you leap

and start construction of new nuclear power plants.

 

Mikhail Gorbachev

 

June 2006

 

 

 

Radiation is not a joke or a conspiracy theory. Take a look at

these pictures of Chernobyl today. http://www.kiddofspeed.com/ In

reality we should be worrying about medical equipment and treatments

using ionizing radiation and oppose nuclear power plants, which leak

radiation even during normal " safe " operations. We should live as far

away as we can from them and from coal fire power plants that expose

us to high levels of mercury. It would be most fine indeed if we

could put the same distance between ourselves and the American

government but with current spending of almost 3 trillion dollars a

year to support their existence it is difficult to find a safe haven

on earth that is not beyond their threatening reach.

 

 

 

Special Note:

 

 

 

After publishing about low levels of radiation I got this note

from a reader, Dr. Joel M. Kauffman. " If there is one thing that is

proven beyond all doubt, it is that low levels of radiation are

beneficial. " I of course went to look into this possibility that I

might be wrong, as all good scientists should do, and was glad for

the effort for it brought me back to some deep roots that I had

forgotten about.

 

 

 

Twenty five years ago, when I first started on my spiritual

path, I ran across a genius, Dr. Walter Russell[8],[9] who predicted

the loss of the ozone layer 20 years before scientists started

noticing this disaster. In Russell's estimation, the lighter

pressures of the stratosphere would retain the majority of

radioactive fallout, and would be the first region that would reveal

the wholesale destruction of oxygen. And in fact we do have massive

reductions in the ozone that are not all explainable via chemical

sources. His book Atomic Suicide clearly denotes nuclear radiation as

the death principle. But like my mentor Christopher Hills, his work

as been cast aside, rejected by a race of beings hell bent on

committing suicide or allowing those in power to do it for us all.

 

 

 

I found a site where a man would go down into a mine full of

radon to heal himself of arthritis. Seemed strange when he could have

done the same thing with magnesium, which is much safer. There are

even some " radioactive springs " in Europe that are used for healing.

Propaganda for one of the six radon mines here in the US says that

people come into the mines in wheelchairs and walk out. And who knows

perhaps there is some truth that the short term expansive power of

radiation could have this short term effect, but what about the long

term collateral damages?

 

 

 

Yes we live in a universe of radiation and it has been here

since the beginning of time but in natural forms and concentrations.

Everything about man made radiation from too many x-rays to nuclear

power plants, atomic bombs and depleted uranium speak of something

that threatens life.

 

 

 

Dr. Joel M. Kauffman[10] says low levels of radiation are

beneficial and he actually is correct to a point. First sunshine

radiation UVA, UVB and UVC are healthy, though there are many who

would have us hide from the sun and use toxic sun blocks to

accomplish this. Unfortunately in areas where the ozone hole has

opened up higher levels of radiation this is actually necessary for

one can get burned in minutes in certain areas. Kauffman says that x-

rays are harmless at their present low levels with modern technology

bringing the dose exposures way down, and that is a relief to know.

But he treads on a slippery slope when suggests the x-rays are

responsible for reducing breast cancer deaths and thus would be a

viable mode of treatment.

 

 

 

Using toxic substances and radiation itself for medical

treatments is a dangerous game (especially when safer natural

alternative exist) that many like to play. There are plenty of

doctors and dentists, for instance, who say the " small " amounts of

mercury and fluoride used by the medical and dental professions is

beneficial. Certainly chicken farmers don't think they are harming us

with the arsenic they are using to raise their chickens. In general

our entire culture is built on the principle that the dose makes the

poison. Thus industry, government, medicine, agriculture and the

military are all engaged in poisoning the human race and the planet

itself but protect their mental sanity with this rationalization

firmly planted in their neuro circuits so they can sleep at night.

Each lives with the bizarre hallucination that just a little bit of

poison will not harm us or our children. But when you put it all

together we have a disaster of staggering proportions. And health

officials at the CDC scratch their heads wondering what is going on

as the chemical and radiation exposures hit people from all sides

simultaneously.

 

 

 

American toxicologist Dr. Edward Calabrese, who Dr. Kauffman

uses to shore up his arguments, argues that hormesis may change how

regulators determine safe exposure levels to radiation or to toxic

chemicals. Hormesis is the theory that supports the deliberate use of

low levels of radiation for healing and it is the theory which finds

evidence showing that at very low levels, harmful chemicals and

ionizing radiation can prolong life, reduce the risk of cancer or

spur animals and plants to grow faster. " We really have to take a

hard look at what is going on at low doses. We are assuming it is

harmful, and we go to great lengths to prevent people from exposure

to minuscule amounts when we may actually be increasing their risk, "

says Dr. Ron Mitchel, a biologist with Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd.

in Chalk River, Ont.

 

 

 

Dr. Calabrese suspects that beneficial exposure to some

chemicals may be at levels now considered unacceptably high. What

this all amounts to is a defense for the massive poisoning of

humanity and a literal mind fuck (excuse the literal but accurate

language here) that says we are not exposing our children and adults

to enough harmful chemicals. We are not poisoning humanity enough has

to be the zenith of insanity and it is the real basis of

pharmaceutical terrorism. When people are sick from toxins allopathic

medicine steps in to make people more toxic with its pharmaceuticals.

Why not, a little poison is good for you!

 

 

 

There are all kinds of strange thoughts possible in today's

world and there are people happy with the results of the chemical and

radiation poisoning of the human race. After all it's all responsible

for declining fertility rates and that has to be a good thing right?

What better way to control our tendency to breed like rats. Eugenics'

is not a joke in certain circles where population control is high on

the agenda.

 

 

 

In times gone past when our bodies were not toxic waste sites it

might have made some sense to use a bit of poison to heal someone.

Homeopathy is the art of using incredibly small doses this way, much

smaller than is ever considered in allopathic medicine. But today

there is no one alive who can predict what another dose of another

toxic medical substance will do to an already overburdened biological

system.

 

 

 

 

 

Mark Sircus Ac., OMD International Medical Veritas Association

http://www.imva.info