Addendum - I wrote: Research is ongoing WRT heritable radiation-induced genetic damage, in this case cancer surviviors who were treated with radiation...
and went on to mention miscarriage associated with exposure to radiation while pregnant; here is a 2002 study that found "...A higher, but not statistically significant, risk of miscarriage was present among women whose ovaries were in the radiation therapy field..." WRT cancer therapy. It concludes that they "did not identify adverse pregnancy outcomes for female survivors treated with most chemotherapeutic agents. The offspring of women who received pelvic irradiation are at risk for low birth weight." http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12389007&dopt=Abstract This study found a lower rate of successful pregnancy outcome in partners of men who had been treated with procarbazine, as well as an altered male:female infant ratio in the partners of male cancer survivors who had children (with ~ 4000 men, I don't know the numbers for radiation therapy vs. chemo in either study): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12586811&dopt=Abstract Debbi __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
