Re: Dumb questions and comments on ecological/case studies

[BERNARD L COHEN <blc+@PITT.EDU>]

On Fri, 7 Jun 2002 epirad@mchsi.com wrote:



> Dr. Cohen,

>

> I am extremely surprised you are not aware of this.

> Smoking related cancers were brought to your attention 8

> years ago by Dr. Gilbert in the Health Physics Journal.

>

> Gilbert ES. Smoking as an explanation for the negative

> relationship between exposure to radon and certain types

> of cancer.  Health Phys. 1994 Aug;67(2):197-8.



	--My apologies. I forgot about this paper. It came out before

my principal paper, which was published in 1995.It was a comment on my

paper on Relationship between exposure to radon and various types of

cancer, Health Phys 65:529-531;1993. That paper was simply an analysis of

data and was reported principally as an interesting curiosity; there were

no claims that it indicated failure of LNT. The treatment of smoking there

was very rudimentary, nothing like that in my papers on test of LNT.



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