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[Steven Dapra]

May 15

         This is the link to what is probably the Tondel paper Busby 
invokes below.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15547062

         The citation is J Epidemiol Community Health. 2004 Dec;58(12):1011-6.

         "A cohort study was focused on the fallout of caesium-137 in 
relation to cancer incidence 1988-1996."

         "The excess relative risk [for Cs-137 deposition] was 0.11 
per 100 kiloBecquerel/m(2) . . ."

         Busby says there was an "11% increase in cancre [sic]".  I 
assume he got that from the excess relative risk of 0.11.  I am 
neither a statistician nor an epidemiologist.  Does an excess 
relative risk of 0.11 constitute an 11 percent increase in cancer?

Steven Dapra


At 06:26 AM 5/14/2011, you wrote:
>Dear Radsafers

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>The calculation that was done for Fukushima was based on 
>scientifically valid comparisons with weapons fallout cancer yields 
>and Chernobyl cancer yields in Sweden published by Tondel et al in 
>2004 which show 11% increase in cancre per 100kBq/m2 comntamination,.

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>Sincerely
>Chris

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