Re: Radon and Smoking (individual vs aggregate)

["Field, R. William" <bill-field@UIOWA.EDU>]

Bill Field wrote:  Regarding your reference to

BEIR.  Are you interpreting their findings as indicating lung cancer

risk is linear in radon exposure and other factors?


> Dr. Cohen wrote: There is nothing
>
> to interpret; I just use their mathematical expressions. But it is
>
> certainly true that the BEIR Reports give a linear relationship between
>
> lung cancer and radiation exposure.


> No, radon exposure and lung cancer
>
> are NOT linearly related.  So, why would average exposure equal
>
> average risk for lung cancer (using collective dose and LNT) in an
>
> ecologic analysis?


Bill Field



>  






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