Re: Epidemiology of Multiple Myeloma at Four DOE Sites

[steve hand <hand@wam.umd.edu>]

Susan Gawarecki wrote:

> Some information on radiation-related health effects I thought might be
> of interest to the list.
>
> --Susan Gawarecki
>
> Epidemiology of Multiple Myeloma at Four DOE Sites
> Department of Epidemiology
> University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
>
> An epidemiological study of multiple myeloma among Department of Energy
> (DOE) workers....

    Susan and others:

        What about all the other workers who received the same "certain
occupational exposures" but are not included in the controls group - why are
they not compared to the 98 ?  Does this mean that of the 115,143 workers
only 391 matched up ?   Why was only age selected ?

    "The study compared exposure histories of cases and controls to
investigate whether certain occupational exposures were relatively more
common among cases."

Thanks,


Steve Hand
Radiation Safety
University of Maryland
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