[ RadSafe ] Re: Lung cancer reduction by Radiation

[Syd H. Levine]

Dr. Long:

Well said, and you certainly help put the debate over LNT in perspective.

Half the adult population in this country has been convinced to take
statins, yet the evidence that a nice radiation dose would help a great deal
more than statins ever could is profoundly more convincing!

Syd H. Levine
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "howard long" <hflong at pacbell.net>
To: "John Jacobus" <crispy_bird at yahoo.com>; "radsafe" <radsafe at radlab.nl>
Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2006 3:50 PM
Subject: [ RadSafe ] Re: Lung cancer reduction by Radiation


> The paper by Luan in JAPS gives better evidence that radiation prevents
> cancer (p<0.001) than we have for effectiveness of most therapies in
> medicine.
>
>  So does the Cameron analysis of NSWS.
>
>  Double blind experiments were not conducted for penicillin in pneumonia
> because the effectiveness was so obvious, as in the above.
>
>  Of course stopping smoking is even better proven, and also has no double
> blind experiments..
>
>  Howard Long MD MPH
>
>
> John Jacobus <crispy_bird at yahoo.com> wrote:
>  Dr. Luan,
> If you have serious concerns about the high incidents
> of lung cancers, I would think that you would foster
> the idea the people should stop smoking. Studies have
> shown the individual who stop smoking have reduced
> incidents in lung cancer. There is no evidence that
> increased exposures to radiation have done so.
>
> Also, as WE discussed several years ago, your
> statements on reduction of cancers in Taiwanese
> apartment dwellers was at best an incompete report.
> At worst, badly flawed. There has been no further
> study of these people, as opposed to the Atomic Bomb
> survivors. In your work was of limited scope.
>
> Maybe this is why many professional radiation
> scientist consider this to be a "wild story."
>
>> yuan-chi luan wrote:
>> Dear Dr. Cohen:
>>
>> I am glad to have read your letter to Toronto
>> Glope & mail in showing the the results of your 25
>> years studies of radon gas whether dangerous to
>> humankind, that the US population in the high
>> average radon level county, have 30% of less lung
>> cancer deaths in the low average radon level
>> counties. Therefore the EPA of US and Canada
>> governments in trying to reduce the radon
>> concentration in homes and water are really
>> unnecessary and unreasonable..
>>
>> The population in US high average radon level
>> counties, have 30% of less lung cancers deaths
>> attributed to they received higher internal
>> radiation doses from radon. Assumed the cancer
>> mortality in United States is same as in Taiwan, and
>> aslo half of them is lung cancers, the United States
>> might have about 200,000 lung cancer deaths each
>> year. If 30% of lung cancer reduced in high average
>> level counties ( supposed half in high lwvel
>> country) then about 30,000 lung cancers deaths woudl
>> be prevented. Acually, the external chronic
>> radiation from Gamma ray could also reduce cancers.
>> Dr. Luckey, the most important health physicist
>> prsented a paper in 1999 ANS annual meeting
>> indicated that, if the amount of gamma radiation
>> received by the nuclear energy workers, was given to
>> the whole US population through public health
>> service, half of the cancer deaths of the
>> population or 200,000 cancer deaths might be
>> prevented each year, So that all kind radiation
>> might reduce
>> cancers...
>>
>> The excess internal doses from radon and external
>> doses from gamma ray could easily reduce the cancer
>> deaths of the population, but the excess radiation
>> could not easily deliver to the population. The
>> coincidently incident of the Co-60 contamination
>> apartments in Taiwan seemed to demonstrate that
>> chronic radiation doses were not only easy to give
>> off but also could prevent about 97% of their
>> cancers by arranging some low activity of Co-60 on
>> the ceiling of the living rooms and bed rooms in
>> exposing the chronic radiation doses to the
>> population in about 50 mSv/y or 5000 mrem/y, as if
>> their cancers have been immunized, though there are
>> some health physicists still considered as a wild
>> story.. .. .
>>
>> Best regards
>>
>> Y. C. Luan Senior Scientist of NuSTA and
>> Consultant of NBC Society.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ---------------------------------
>> From: Bernard Cohen
>> To: "Jim Muckerheide, RSH"
>> Subject: Letter to Toronto Globe & Mail
>> Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 15:03:58 -0400
>>
> . . .
>
> +++++++++++++++++++
> "You get a lot more authority when the workforce doesn't think it's
> amateur hour on the top floor."
> GEN. MICHAEL V. HAYDEN, President Bush's nominee for C.I.A. director.
>
> -- John
> John Jacobus, MS
> Certified Health Physicist
> e-mail: crispy_bird at yahoo.com
>
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