[ RadSafe ] When Radiation Isn’t the Real Risk

[KARAM, PHILIP]

There's also an older population along the Gulf Coast (more retirees there), plus the petrochemical industry, plus southern cooking (our cooks would have deep-fried water if they could have figured out how). So I suspect that radiation, if it has any role at all, is minor. But at the very least we can say that any effects - positive or negative - are second-order effects at that level of exposure.

Andy


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I've heard this attributed to oxidative stress on cells (more O2 @ sea level).

But some folks will do anything to avoid the "H" word - hormesis...

Brian Rees


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From: radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu on behalf of S L Gawarecki
Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2015 8:39:25 PM
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Subject: [ RadSafe ] When Radiation Isn’t the Real Risk

Quite an interesting article here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/22/science/when-radiation-isnt-the-real-risk.html

When people want to moan about the great cancer risk of radiation, I like to point out that Colorado residents on average are exposed to a much higher (approximately 3 times) radiation dose than people who live in Alabama (Table 2 in http://www.orau.org/ptp/PTP%20Library/library/Subject/Environmental/radiationbackground.pdf),
yet there is not a corresponding increase in the cancer rate. In fact, Alabama's average cancer incidence rate is about 1.2 times higher than that of Colorado and Alabama's average death rate from cancer in Alabama is about 1.3 times that of Colorado ( http://www.cdc.gov/cancer/dcpc/data/state.htm).

Regards,
*Susan Gawarecki*

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SLGawarecki at gmail.com
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