Fluoridation and cancer mortality in Anglesey.

Cancer mortality by site and fluoridation of water supplies.

Site-specific cancer mortality data for 20 United States cities have been abstracted from United States Government publications to explore further the hypothesis that fluoridation of water supplies causes cancer. Changes in mortality (standardised for age, sex, and ethnic group) between 1958-62 and 1968-72 in 10 fluoridated and 10 non-fluoridated United States cities have been examined. Of the ...

Fluoridation of Drinking Water and Subsequent Cancer Incidence and Mortality

Urban slums and primary health care.

provide substantial benefits for the dental health of six million people, many of them living in the west midlands and the north east ofEngland.4 The arguments for extending fluoridation are not as overwhelming as they were in 1956. The prevalence of dental caries has fallen in both fluoridated and non-fluoridated districts,5 and the costs of fluoridation plant designed to meet modem operating ...

Fluoridation of water supplies and cancer mortality. I: A search for an effect in the UK on risk of death from cancer.

Claims that the mortality from cancer has been increased in urban populations as a result of the fluoridation of water supplies have been given publicity in the press and on the radio and television, and questions have consequently been asked in Parliament with a view to stopping plans for further fluoridation. These. claims have been based on an analysis of the trend in cancer mortality rates ...

Fluoridation of Water and Cancer: A Review of the Epidemiological Evidence

PREFACE There is ample evidence, from many places and over many years, that fluoridation of the public water supply leads to a substantial reduction in dental caries, with all that means in prevention of suffering, inconvenience and unnecessary cost. It can be shown that the beneficial effect of fluoride is significant, whatever other measures are taken in relation to sound nutrition and preven...