Breast Cancer, radon, junk science.

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

I thought these sites concerning radon and breast cancer were interesting.

http://www.junkscience.com/news/radon-breast-cancer.html

http://www.junkscience.com/news/radon-breast-cancer2.html


Harry
harryhinks@hotmail.com



>From: "dkosloff1" <dkosloff1@email.msn.com>
>Reply-To: radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu
>To: Multiple recipients of list <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
>Subject: Re: Breast Cancer...Some Ideas
>Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 07:33:41 -0600 (CST)
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <JPreisig@aol.com>
>To: "Multiple recipients of list" <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
>Subject: Breast Cancer...Some Ideas
>
>
> >      I believe one (primary???) cause of breast cancer may be due to
>cosmic
> > radiation (neutrons/protons/hadrons) interacting with the breasts.
>
>If cosmic radiation were a primary cause of breast cancer there should be
>elevated incidence among high altitude populations as compared to sea level
>populations and among female aircraft flight crew members.  These
>populations have been studied, to some degree, with published data.  For
>example the NIH did a study of cancer mortality in counties (and control
>counties) near operating nuclear facilitites in several of the US.  As I
>recall the, SMSR for breast cancer near Rocky Flats (Denver), Colorado was
>less than one, although the variation was not statistically significant.  
>If
>cosmic radiation were a primary cause, the study should have shown a
>statistically significant elevated SMSR for the Colorado counties and
>statistically significant depressed SMSRs for some of the sea level study
>and control counties.
>
>Don Kosloff dkosloff1@msn.com
>2910 Main Street, Perry, OH 44081
>
>
>
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