Head and Neck Cancer

Follow-Up Studies Urged Concerning Radium-Pellet Therapy

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, April 8th, 1996

People who endured an old-fashioned cure for earache - having radium pellets stuffed up their noses - should watch for head and neck cancers, U.S. researchers said, even though there's no strong evidence linking the two.

The treatment was common among children and military fliers and divers from the 1940s to the mid-1960s, when antibiotics proved better. "We're grappling with how to deal with" concerns expressed by veterans and others, said Dr. Richard Jackson, director of the U.S. National Center for Environmental Health at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). "We're not talking about an acute health risk here."

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