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for Hanford datd By Solvdg Tonlk RICHLAND - One of the cause cancer in tho child in hter Dr. Alice Ste we a lively 80.- y&rsld witha rharp Wit and a wicked twinkle in her ayes, h been battling the Department of Enlgy for 10 yeara over aceem to hdth data on Mod wrvkera Last week &e won the support Review Pand when it recommended that the dc pub m tdma a ita data to scientists other than j u t ment. That ppnd of up with help from== Centera for Disebpe Control. Stewart, an expert in wide mioIogy, baa wanted to pmme hir effecfa of radiatioa. The theory: Not all humana Ckamobyl were upbeed to huge She sqnxta that two people of the blzne age standing eide by side might not be equdly affected by the osme dose of low-levd That might esptoin why wme Word workem eqKmed to dee adm of low-lwei dowe of radiation mcer or & disorders. Ths answer could be in the an his wee function, she the+ holds in low an at rate pmon recdvee, not on the p history. But thia infomution would tdl what kind of maulta been subjected to that might weaken ita respanse to radiation, tbe immune sydun alzasdy bbe
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“Handling the noire k the dded. sht hre experieaw in these things and believm aha knows t h e value of time in varifying dent Kc about the hann of X-rays to the unborn, dit “seumbled aczwu it by No one bdieved her findings at 5nk But, aa a nseatch prof mr at Word Univmity, ah0 tracked her subjects for 20 yeanr while the mh if ic oommmity dimnhd thbry wan true, urd the Ward data bank en low-Iwel aadiation Her l a w coup ir the compli tion of entry into ths data bbak of wiry 10 8qunrm d m in Britain, She became eatangled with the b u help in vrrifying his dat. that showed high- than normal cancer rata among Hanford workem. The agency cut off funds for Mancusob rmemch, but Stewart datu they had and to publish it from Wd.The de ment did not u g ~ ~With the mnddoas Shs was rertching: tbat something Q WTQII with the way the data i o Stewarc and Knealr did it h~, in tbeir 8pal.e time from tha A thorn in the bide o i tbe Encrgy Department ever since, she in now.”ndred” from Oxford and amtinuhg h a work at Binningham Uni w ty. She womea abaut Hanfods longtam effm on the population and d d it is hportPnt to prwent I& of radiation h r n “Don’t go away with the idea thnt it wiu d y caw an^" dm mid ‘It aill abo lave a up aa rnuatiw or other º in law gtner‘atiorlq she wuned.