Re: Lung cancer mortality from radon versus mortality from other cancers

["Rad health" <healthrad@HOTMAIL.COM>]

No, the first cancer is called the primary cancer, the metastases is called 

a secondary cancer.  When a SEER (http://seer.cancer.gov/) state collects 

data, they try to discern which is the primary.  It often takes CT or 

autopsies etc to figure it out.  Normally with lung cancer, it is recognized 

first because of a cough, pneumonia etc. and then the secondary cancers 

appear at a later stage.  But, your right, the patient often dies from other 

causes than lung cancer.  That is a problem with ecologic studies that rely 

on just death certificates.





Don Smith



>From: maury <maury@webtexas.com>

>To: Rad health <healthrad@HOTMAIL.COM>

>CC: radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu

>Subject: Re: Lung cancer mortality from radon versus mortality from other 

>cancers

>Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 17:48:32 -0600

>

>Then, since you suggest a few examples, surprise us. Provide a few numbers 

>just as examples to support your point - and how do you untangle such cases

>as the class: brain cancer. When one has lung cancer, that cancer often 

>subsequently appears in the brain as well as elsewhere in the body. Is this

>still, as physicians typically refer to it, lung cancer? How are these data 

>untangled.? In any event, you have asserted 19,000 cancer deaths from

>radon; in your view what are the comparable numbers for brain, breast, 

>prostate, and bone?

>Thanks,

>Maury Siskel     maury@webtexas.com

>----------

>LNT got your goat? Well, take a short break and think how nice it is that 

>wrinkles don't hurt ....

>===============================================

>Rad health wrote:

>

> > Patricia,

> >

> > At the recent ARRST/CRCPD International Radon Meeting 

>http://www.aarst.org/

> > in Daytona Beach, Dr. Field pointed out that if the BEIR VI predictions 

>are

> > accurate.  These 19,000 cancer deaths from radon exceed the total number 

>of

> > cancer deaths for many forms of cancers.  You may be surprised if you 

>check

> > how many cancer deaths there are from the following cancers: brain, 

>breast,

> > prostate, bone, etc. each year.

> >

> > Don Smith

> >

> > >From: "Patricia Milligan" <PXM@nrc.gov>

> >

> > Possibly, quite possibly, the radiological and chemical insults to our

> > bodies over the thousands of years is what directed our course of 

>evolution.

> >   One would reasonably expect, given LNT and the large number of people 

>in

>

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>





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