New York – April 29, 2009 — Blood  fluoride levels were significantly higher in patients with osteosarcoma than in  control groups, according to research published in Biological Trace Element Research  (April 2009).  

Osteosarcoma, a rare bone cancer, occurs mostly in children  and young adults Randhu and colleagues measured serum fluoride levels in three equal groups of age-matched and sex-matched patients.  Group one had osteosarcoma; group two had non-osteosarcoma bone tumors; and  group three had musculo-skeletal pain. (1)

“Mean serum fluoride concentration was  found to be significantly higher in patients with osteosarcoma as compared to  the other two groups,” write Randhu’s team. “(T)his report proves a link between  raised fluoride levels in serum and osteosarcoma,” they  write.

This reinforces a 2006 published  Harvard study by Bassin showing a link between water fluoridation and  osteosarcoma in young boys. (2) A 1992 New Jersey Department of Health  study shows osteosarcoma rates higher among young males in fluoridated vs.  unfluoridated regions of New  Jersey. (3)

More studies link fluoride to bone and  other cancers but are downplayed or ignored by government officials. (4)(5)  

Bone defects similar to bone cancer  were detected in fluoridated Newburgh NY  children as early as 1955. Newburgh is home of the first human health  fluoridation experiment begun in 1945.

According to Christopher Bryson in The Fluoride Deception. “A radiologist,  Dr. John Caffey of Columbia University, called the defects ‘striking’ in their  ‘similarity’ to bone cancer… and seen more than twice as frequently among boys  in Newburgh as among boys in nonfluoridated Kingston [the control city].” (6)  

In 2006, the prestigious National  Research Council review of fluoride/fluoridation toxicology found a  fluoride/bone cancer link plausible.   “If governments truly want to save money, stopping fluoridation is a  no-brainer.  It would save money,  preserve health and teeth,” says attorney Paul Beeber, President, New York State  Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation.  

In 2005, 11 Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) employee unions,  representing over 7000 environmental and public health professionals called for  a moratorium on fluoridation programs across the country and asked EPA  management to recognize fluoride as posing a serious risk of causing cancer in  people. (7)  

In  addition, over 2,430 professionals urge the US Congress to stop fluoridation  until Congressional hearings are conducted, citing scientific evidence that  fluoridation, long promoted to fight tooth decay, is ineffective and has serious  health risks. See statement:
(http://www.fluoridealert.org/statement.august.2007.html) 

Contact: Paul Beeber, JD nyscof@aol.com
President,
New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation, Inc
PO Box 263
Old Bethpage, NY 11804
http://www.orgsites.com/ny/nyscof
http://www.FluorideAction.Net

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References:

1) Biological Trace Element Research, “Serum Fluoride and Sialic Acid Levels in Osteosarcoma,” by Sandhu R, Lal H, Kundu ZS, Kharb S, Apr 24, 2009 [Epub ahead of print]

2) Cancer Causes Control “Age-specific fluoride exposure in drinking water and
osteosarcoma (United States), by Bassin et al., May 2006

3) New Jersey Department of Health, “A Brief Report On The Association Of Drinking Water Fluoridation And The Incidence of Osteosarcoma Among Young Males,” Cohn PD. (1992).

4) Fluoride and Osteosarcoma
http://www.fluoridealert.org/health/cancer/osteosarcoma-timeline.html

5) Fluoride and Cancer
http://www.fluoridealert.org/health/cancer/

6) The Fluoride Deception, by Christopher Bryson
with a foreword by Dr. Theo Colborn, Seven Stories Press,
May 2004
http://www.fluoridealert.org/fluoride-deception.htm

7) Press Release August 19, 2005, “EPA Unions Call for Nationwide Moratorium on Fluoridation, Congressional Hearing on Adverse Effects, Youth Cancer Cover Up,” Contact: Dr. William Hirzy, Vice-President NTEU Chapter 280
http://www.nteu280.org/Issues/Fluoride/Press%20Release.%20Fluoride.htm