Re: Request for suggestion (cancer risks, ICRP 79)

["Bjorn Cedervall" <bcradsafers@hotmail.com>]

>Folks are worried that the nukes are going to give them cancer and lead to 
>a slow miserable death.
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ICRP 79 (Genetic susceptibility to cancer) is interesting reading. One 
bottomline is that (most probably) not even high-risk _individuals_ (cancer 
in general, high penetrance genes in the family) are at any particularly 
enhanced cancer risks even if they are exposed to as much as 100 mSv (10 
rem), see sections 7.1.1-7.1.2. The main risk is still that relating to the 
inherited genes. (the theory behind a relation between radiosensitivity and 
cancer susceptibility in general is discussed from many aspects in ICRP 79).

Next part (=problem) is the usual - and more difficult - get this message to 
decision makers, media, and a worried general public.

My reflection only,

Bjorn Cedervall   bcradsafers@hotmail.com

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