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RE: Lung cancer mortality from radon versus mortality from other cancers
Must be second-hand smoke. :-)
Jack Earley
Radiological Engineer
-----Original Message-----
From: Rad health [mailto:healthrad@hotmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 7:11 PM
To: jmuckerheide@cnts.wpi.edu; maury@WEBTEXAS.COM
Cc: radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
Subject: RE: Lung cancer mortality from radon versus mortality from
other cancers
Jim,
How can it be that even now, 15% of primary lung cancers arise in never
smokers.
15% of 160,000 = many more than essentially none
Don Smith
>From: "Jim Muckerheide" <jmuckerheide@cnts.wpi.edu>
>To: "maury" <maury@WEBTEXAS.COM>, "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 22:21:54 -0500
>
>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
>============
>
>-----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
>----------
>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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