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Originally Posted by Anthony
Well, we made glow in the dark watches with radium, which involved workers licking paint brushes (with radium paint) to keep them sharp, and resulted in quite a lot of mouth cancer.
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Maybe not. The standard disease of radium workers was "radium jaw" which about as much chemical effect (Ra replaces Ca in bone) as a radiation induced one, and seems to have killed by necrosis (tissue death) not cancer.