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RE: A Bomb victims health
Ted,
Could it be their cancers are being detected earlier? The earlier the
detection, the more sooner the treatment and cure.
-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
3050 Traymore Lane
Bowie, MD 20715-2024
E-mail: jenday1@email.msn.com (H)
-----Original Message-----
From: Ted Rockwell [mailto:tedrock@CPCUG.ORG]
Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 3:44 PM
To: Norman Cohen; radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
Subject: RE: A Bomb victims health
> A-bomb survivors at Nagasaki and Hiroshima
> are healthier
Norm:
True, and completely consistent with data on people in high natural
radiation areas like Denver and Ramsar. Also downwinders and workers in
nuclear facilities. In all these cases, when the work is honestly done,
low-dose irradiation is shown to benefit health.
This is even true for the work of Sternglass, et al. who then comb thru
various sub-groups until they find one that comes out positive.
For the A-bomb survivors, those who got high-dose irradiation had a slightly
higher cancer rate than unirradiated population, but the beneficial effect
at the lower rates more than compensated for this. Overall, there were
between 400 and 450 additional cancers in the survivors (a small fraction of
all cancers), but death from all causes in this group was below expected and
this group is outliving the unirradiated controls.
TR
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