Re: Recommendation to resolve Cohen's ecologic study questions

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

Howard,



While the effective dose may be similar, the biological response of x-rays 

as compared to alpha particles will differ.



Call up the alternative medicine folks at NIH for some guidance for a 

proposal.





Don



>From: hflong@postoffice.pacbell.net

>Reply-To: hflong@postoffice.pacbell.net

>To: "Field, R. William" <bill-field@UIOWA.EDU>, radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu

>Subject: Re: Recommendation to resolve Cohen's ecologic study questions

>Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 09:32:20 -0800

>

>Dear Bill,

>I concede that your Iowa study is much more scientific than most medical 

>articles

>appearing in the JAMA. However, I do hold us to a higher standard: try for 

>as

>identical control matches as possible (the best being reproducable, double 

>blind

>placebo trials).

>

>I also concede that it is very difficult to do this with radon. So I am 

>considering

>a surrugate, using the "1.3 pCi/l radon in home = about 1.6 rem x-ray/year 

>to

>bronchi " ionizing radiation effect stated by (? I can look up the 

>reference). For

>comparison, chest CT (Picker, Phillips or GE) gives an acute dose of one 

>rem,

>average.





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