[ RadSafe ] Radiation – 1 cancer per 2,500 person-rem, sez UC-Berkeley physics professor, relying on linear, no-threshold extrapolation model

[Roger Helbig]

Note the spin applied by MacPherson and Arclight2011, who is clearly
touting Busby in the last line - this arclight person appears to be a
Busby shill among other things.  It is too bad that they won't
identify themselves, but that is typical behavior for a Busby shill.

Roger Helbig

"NOTE : there is no research into radiation causing cancers this year
as Prof C Busby nor any independent researcher is getting any
funding.. and the budget has tripled this year for R and D in cancer..
Arclight"


arclight2011 posted: "  Background: Measurement of background
radiation is very important from different points of view especially
for human health. The aim of this survey was focused on determining
the current background radiation in one of the highest altitude"

Radiation – 1 cancer per 2,500 person-rem, sez UC-Berkeley physics
professor, relying on linear, no-threshold extrapolation model

by arclight2011

Background: Measurement of background radiation is very important from
different points of view especially for human health. The aim of this
survey was focused on determining the current background radiation in
one of the highest altitude regions ( Zagros Mountains ), Chaharmahal
and Bakhtiari province, in the south west of Iran .

Materials and Methods: The outdoors-environmental monitoring exposure
rate of radiation was measured in 200 randomly chosen regions using
portable Geiger-Muller and Scintillation detectors. Eight measurements
were made for each region and an average value was used to calculate
the exposure rate from natural background radiation.

Results: The exposure dose rate was found to be 28.4 m Rh-1 and the
annual average effective equivalent dose was found to be 0.49 mSv. An
overall population weighted average outdoor dose rate was calculated
to be 49 nGyh-1, which is higher than the world-wide mean value of
44 nGyh-1 and is comparable to the annual effective equivalent dose of 0.38 mSv.

Conclusion: A good correlation between the altitude and the exposure
rate was observed, as the higher altitude regions have higher natural
background radiation levels. Iran . J. Radiat. Res.; 2003; 1(2): 87 –
91...."

And while they looked for the causes of cancer in the below study they
found two main contributing (alleged) factors, consanguineous marriage
and altitude/radiation exposure.

Pancreatic Cancer: State of the Art and
Current Situation in the Islamic Republic of Iran

Govaresh\ Vol. 14, No.3, Autumn 2009; 189-197

"...Most of these provinces
including Khorasan, Hormozgan, Chaharmahal
and Bakhtiari, Ilam, and Kohkiloueh and
Boyerahmad are among the provinces with high
rate of consanguineous marriage in Iran (12,13).
Other environmental factors may also be
associated with the higher rate of pancreatic
cancer in these provinces as Chaharmahal and
Bakhtiari and Kohkiloueh and Boyerahmad are
two provinces close to each other in the
surrounds of Zagros mountain range. People
living in these two provinces have many cultural
characteristics and behavioral habits in common..."

http://www.iagh.org/Portals/44fa7561-56f7-47e4-a228-477ca071e439/Volume%2014,%20Number%203,%20Autumn%202009/Sufferlin-14-3-4.pdf

an interesting study as the west is generally looking at alcohol as
the main cause now because the "virus" theory has no proof after 20
years..

example of western approach to research

A quantitative assay for assessing the effects of DNA lesions on transcription

"..Affiliations

Department of Chemistry, University of California–Riverside,
Riverside, California, USA.

Changjun You,
Xiaoxia Dai,
Bifeng Yuan,
Jin Wang,
Jianshuang Wang &
Yinsheng Wang

Laboratory of Neurogenetics, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and
Alcoholism, Rockville, Maryland, USA.

Philip J Brooks......."

NOTE : there is no research into radiation causing cancers this year
as Prof C Busby nor any independent researcher is getting any
funding.. and the budget has tripled this year for R and D in cancer..
Arclight

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