[ RadSafe ] Re: Shipyard worker study

[John Jacobus]

Keith,
I believe that I still have a copy of a article that
reivews the shipyard study.  I check on Monday and
send it to you.  

--- Keith Welch <welch at jlab.org> wrote:

> Thanks John,
> 
> The things I am wondering about (anecdotal
> information I've heard over 
> the years) don't have anything to do with asbestos
> exposure, but I 
> suppose that could be an issue.  However, I would
> think since asbestos 
> illness is fairly well identifiable (from what I
> understand) that 
> adjustments could be made for that.  It's hard to
> imagine that the 
> existence of asbestos illness in shipyard employees
> makes them 
> (generally) significantly less healthy than the
> general population.  I 
> have obtained a copy of the study, and one day,
> maybe I'll get a chance 
> to actually go through it and try to learn
> something.  My questions also 
> had to do with review of the study by Cameron and
> Sponsler.  I don't 
> recall seeing in that an indication that the
> unexposed cohort was less 
> healthy than general population, but I haven't
> studied it closely or 
> recently.  Does the shipyard study (or any other
> study) provide a 
> mortality comparison of the unexposed cohort with
> "general population"?
> 
> 

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


 
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