Re: alpha particles and lung cancer

[Bernard L Cohen <blc+@pitt.edu>]

On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Christoph Hofmeyr wrote:
> 
> In a posting of 9 Feb I queried about studies of inhabitants of high radon
> dwellings in e.g. Saxony (significant numbers >15000 Bq/m^3), as
> residential and other records are usually very complete in Germany.  I felt
> that a proper survey under such conditions should be a good measure of the
> danger of domestic radon (in reality the progeny); it could be a seminal
> study.  To be honest, I am baffled that such a study has not had a high
> profile, considering worldwide radon 'remediation' efforts. 

	--How about my study of U.S. counties, published originally in
Health Physics 68:157-174; 1995, with many follow-up papers?

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