Becker and Wichmann

["Harry Hinks" <harryhinks@hotmail.com>]

Chris,

Thank-you for the information about Dr. Becker's studies.  Do you have any 
references for Dr. Becker's publications about radon?  I did a search on 
PubMed, but did not find anything.  Do you know if his studies are  similar 
to Dr. Cohen's in that they were based on radon levels for an area rather 
than a house? It looks like from what you wrote Dr. Becker's results may be 
different than those from Dr. Wichman who recently published his results 
from two studies in Germany.  Does anyone else on the list know about Dr. 
Becker's work or have references to his published radon research?  Perhaps 
his work was published in German?

Harry Hinks
harryhinks@hotmail



>From: "Christoph Hofmeyr" <Christoph_Hofmeyr@nnr.co.za>
>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.  I followed a
>link from one of Jim's postings and am awaiting (unfortunately by
>snailmail) some papers from Prof K Becker in Berlin, who read a paper at
>the Sept 2000 conference in Munich.  Quoting from Becker (e-mail:
>prof.dr.klaus.becker@t-online.de):
>" In fact, there is good evidence that not only the lung cancer rate, but,
>also that of other types of cancer is less  in high radon areas (for a
>compilation, see 22)." -> (22) K. Becker , Is residential radon dangerous?
>In: The Effects of low and Very low Doses of Ionizing Radiation on Human
>Health, Elsevier 2000, 161-172, ISBN  0-444-50513.
>Of course, this would not resolve the question of a mechanism, but it is
>important to get the facts straight first.  I am holding my breath.  My own
>thoughts.
>Chris Hofmeyr
>chofmeyr@nnr.co.za
>
>
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