[ RadSafe ] News from the American Heart Association Meeting

[Baumbaugh, Joel T CIV SPAWARSYSCEN-PACIFIC, 55250]

Don't you just love "statistics"?  From my lifetime exposure history I
guess that means that I have greater than 100% chance of getting cancer
(of something)?  I may as well take up smoking and become a chronic
alcoholic at this point... Oh and/or become an asbestos worker or work
in a Uranium mine...

....Joel Baumbaugh
    SSC Pacific
	San Diego CA 

-----Original Message-----
From: radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu
[mailto:radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu] On Behalf Of Otto G. Raabe


At 10:28 AM 11/15/2010
>These are all cancers, not radiogenic cancers.
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Okay, But what about this statement:

"For every 10 mSv increase in low-dose ionizing radiation, the risk of
cancer increased by 4.4 percent in women and 2.1 percent in men. "

Otto



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Prof. Otto G. Raabe, Ph.D., CHP