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John Allee wrote: > > IN 1956 I WAS A PRIVAE IN THE US ARNY ASSIGNED TO A UNIT THAT DETONATED > ATOMIC AND HYDROGEN BOMBS. I ASSUME I WAS EXPOSED TO MORE RADIATION > THAN WOULD BE CONSIDERED PRUDENT TODAY. MY ONLY RALTH PROBLEM SINCE > 1956 HAS BEEN PD WHCH I DEVELOPED IN THE EARLY 1980'S. > ARE ANY OF YOU AWARE OF ANY EVIDENCE ,SCINTIFIC OR ANECDOTAL, > LINKNG PD AND AND RADIATON FOM NUCLEAR WEAPONS? John, A year or two before you were exposed to radiation in the Army, I received X-Ray treatments for swollen adenoids. Many people who received those treatments as children have had cancer as adults, mostly of the thyroid gland. I think that I got Parkinson's Disease instead of cancer. I was diagnosed with PD two years ago at the age of 46. There is no history of it in my family. Unlike many PWP, at one time I was a heavy cigarette smoker. The only explanation I can deduce for my Parkinson's is the X-Ray treatments I had as a child. So, it is a good possibility that your PD, as well as mine, is a result of exposure to excessive radiation in the 1950's. I would like to hear from any fellow PD'ers who were treated with X-Rays or Radium for swollen tonsils and/or adenoids. John Testa Rochester, New York