Subject:  Incidence of testicular cancer in UK.......
Date:     Thu, 8 Oct 1998 195908 -0500 (CDT)
From:     "Roy L. Beavers" <rbeavers@llion.org>
To:       emfguru <rbeavers@llion.org>
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.......Must be something more than their hands in their pockets???
.....(Note:  a Reuters news report.)......guru......

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Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1998 02:45:44 +0200
From: Christoph Reuss 
To: rbeavers@llion.org, aphilips@gn.apc.org, Cogreslab@aol.com,
    Bdumpe@worldbank.org
Subject: Incidence of testicular cancer in UK up sharply over 20 years

Makes me think of all those guys walking around with the
cell phone in their pocket...

Cheerio,
Chris


>Incidence of testicular cancer in UK up sharply over 20 years
>Tue, 06 Oct 1998 18:53:01 GMT
>
>LONDON, Oct 06 (Reuters) - Scientists with the UK Cancer Research Campaign
>said on Monday that the annual incidence of testicular cancer in England
>and Wales increased by more than 80% from the 1970s to the early 1990s.
>There still is no explanation for the large increase, they said.
>
> Members of the campaign, a British charity, told a press briefing that the
>annual incidence rose from close to 700 cases in the early 1970s to 1,300
>cases over two decades.
>
> Only about 10% of the UK cases involved patients with histories of an
>undescended testis, so this condition, thoughrisk factor for testicular
>cancer, was not a major factor in the dramatic increase, campaign officials
>said.
>
> Scientists with the charity speculated that the increase in incidence
>might be associated with exposure to high levels of oestrogen in the
>environment or high levels of oestrogen in the womb.
>
> In addition, officials "...strongly believe there is a genetic link," Dr.
>Robert Huddart, an oncologist at Britains Institute of Cancer Research,
>told briefing attendees. "If we could find the gene we might be able to see
>how it relates to environmental factors," he commented.
>
> Dr. Huddart is involved in an internationalconsortium that is studying
>families with more than one case of the disease. There is evidence that
>susceptibility genes for testicular cancer are recessive. Studies suggest
>that these genes could be responsible for as many as 20% to 30% of all
>cases of the disease, the researcher added.
>
> The Nordic countries and England and Wales have some of the highest
>incidence rates for testicular cancer in the world, according to data
>supplied by the campaign.
>
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>





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