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Re: Lung cancer mortality from radon versus mortality from othercancers
The highest incidence of lung cancer was in New Guinea aborigines who didn't have smoke-holes in their wood-heated huts.
Howard long
Rad health wrote:
> 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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