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RE: Lung cancer mortality from radon versus mortality from other cancers
Maury,
As already presented and discussed, these are supposedly lung cancers
(including metastatic), but there is essentially NO lung cancer before
smoking. No such results are possible. It's just rationalization to
defend the rad protection "mission" to extract funds from by producing
fear in a gullible public. EPA had to do this when it was pointed out
that their rad limits were orders of magnitude more stringent than the
release and exposure to natural radon.
Suddenly the "Environmental Protection Agency" went from protecting the
environment from the ravages of man to protecting man from the ravages
of the environment. Never underestimate the creativity and diligence of
a bureaucracy with enough money to perpetuate itself. :-)
Regards, Jim
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-----Original Message-----
From: maury
Sent: Wed 16-Jan-02 6:48 PM
To: Rad health
Cc: radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
Subject: Re: Lung cancer mortality from radon versus mortality
from other cancers
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
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LNT got your goat? Well, take a short break and think how nice it is
that wrinkles don't hurt ....
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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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