[ RadSafe ] AW: Gasteiner Heilstollen for holiday!?

[John Jacobus]

Ranier,
Would you then conclude that increased annual doses of
radiation do not have a noticable effect on cancer
rates?  

--- Rainer.Facius at dlr.de wrote:

> Jim:
> 
>  
> 
> "The percentage of all cancer deaths relative to all
> deaths in
> Badgastein during the years 1947-2000 was 21%, the
> same value as in Bad
> Hofgastein [a nearby control area] despite the
> annual doses being three
> times higher. Furthermore, the number of all
> cancers, especially lung
> cancer, in Bad Gastein is lower than the expected
> value for the province
> of Salzburg, despite the annual doses being four
> times higher."
> 
>  
> 
> Pohl-Ruehling J, Hofmann W,
> 
> Investigation of cancer mortality in the Gastein
> Valley, an area of
> high-level natural radiation.
> 
> International Congress Series 1236(2002)27-29
> 
>  
> 
> Regards, Rainer
> 
> 
> ________________________________
> 
> Von: owner-rad-sci-l at WPI.EDU
> [mailto:owner-rad-sci-l at WPI.EDU] Im Auftrag
> von Muckerheide, James
> Gesendet: Montag, 22. August 2005 16:19
> An: rad-sci-l at WPI.EDU; radsafe at radlab.nl
> Betreff: Gasteiner Heilstollen for holiday!?
> 
> 
> 
> Friends,
> 
>  
> 
> In the 'Travel' section of the Irish Independent...
> :-) 
> 
>  
> 
> ...which says nothing about the long-term lung
> cancer effect!
> 
>  
> 
> Regards, Jim Muckerheide
> 
> ===================
> 
>  
> 
> DESTINATIONS : Build up your immunity on holidays
> 
> Saturday August 20th 2005
> 
>  . . .

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-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
e-mail:  crispy_bird at yahoo.com


		
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