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RE: Lung cancer mortality from radon versus mortality from other cancers
Patricia and Don
Actually, the background cancer rate is enormous. One out of five persons
will die from cancer. Of course, that number changes as the statistics do.
A good, basic source is at http://seer.cancer.gov/Publications/raterisk/. I
think that there is an underlying fear of cancer in society.
-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
3050 Traymore Lane
Bowie, MD 20715-2024
E-mail: jenday1@email.msn.com (H)
-----Original Message-----
From: Rad health [mailto:healthrad@HOTMAIL.COM]
Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 4:31 PM
To: radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
Subject: Lung cancer mortality from radon versus mortality from other
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.
. . .
>From: "Patricia Milligan" <PXM@nrc.gov>
. .
One would reasonably expect, given LNT and the large number of people in
the world, that the background cancer rate would be enormous. In fact, they
are not. As we know and has been told to us by the AMerican Cancer Society,
approximately 2/3 of the cancers in the US are "lifestyle" related cancers.
. . .
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