Deaths from radon in U.S.

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

Could you please give the exact URL for the 19,000 cancer deaths?





Ruth,



Actually 18,600 if you use the central estimate



Don Smith



SEE:



http://www.epa.gov/iaq/radon/beirvi1.html





On the basis of the epidemiologic evidence from miners and understanding of 

the genomic damage caused by alpha particles, the committee concluded that 

exposure to radon in homes is expected to be a cause of lung cancer in the 

general population. According to the committee's two preferred risk models, 

the number of lung-cancer cases due to residential radon exposure in the 

United States was projected to be 15,400 (exposure-age-duration model) or 

21,800 (exposure-age-concentration model). This indicates a public-health 

problem and makes indoor radon the second leading cause of lung cancer after 

cigarette-smoking.









>From: RuthWeiner@aol.com

>To: healthrad@hotmail.com, radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu

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

>cancers

>Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 18:39:00 EST

>

>Could you please give the exact URL for the 19,000 cancer deaths?  I tried

>the AARST web page and it dumped m,e to Oncolink, from which I couldn't 

>seem

>to get anywhere.

>

>Ruth Weiner, Ph. D.

>ruthweiner@aol.com





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