Re: Cancer clusters

[maury <maury@WEBTEXAS.COM>]

I wish you folks would stop this. All these many months, I have been searching

conscienciously for just one good cancer cluster that I could sell - and now you

come along and blow my game. Shucks. Maybe I could start something with tooth

dragons if you folks would just be less free with valid information.  (Note:

Fairies are no longer fashionable -- fire breathing dragons are in today ....)



Oh well ...  sigh ..... back to social security ....  Maybe I can find a couple

good radioactive freight cars and set up a national chain of Radioactive Cancer

Prevention Parlors .... visit your nearest RCPP Train Shoppe. If Ruth would let

me, I might call them the Chernobyl Express Shops. Might put MD Anderson and the

Mayo Clinics out of business!  A guy can't even make a good hokey living. ....

But all is not quite lost -- I might become an enrolled Professional Homeland

Security Snitch and become the most beloved TIPS agent in my community --

impartially looking after everyone's security ....

Cheers,

Maury   (g)              maury@webtexas.com

Eat right, exercise regularly, pay everybody; Die anyway

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"Hart, Tim P GS (RASO)" wrote:



> Not that you would ever have an issue to push on the Public, right John.

>

> Tim Hart

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> -----Original Message-----

> From: Jacobus, John (OD/ORS) [mailto:jacobusj@ors.od.nih.gov]

> Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 12:24 PM

> To: 'Gibbs, S Julian'; Radsafe Mail list

> Subject: RE: Cancer clusters

>

> I think cancer cluster provide a useful function in generating a source of

> income for epidemiologists.  Or those who have a issue to push on the

> public.

>

> -- John

> John Jacobus, MS

> Certified Health Physicist

> 3050 Traymore Lane

> Bowie, MD  20715-2024

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> -----Original Message-----

> From: Gibbs, S Julian [mailto:s.julian.gibbs@vanderbilt.edu]

> Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 11:48 AM

> To: Radsafe Mail list

> Subject: Cancer clusters

>

> The frequency of cancer cases, as all random events, obeys Poisson

> statistics.  This not only allows, but it predicts, that clusters

> will occur.  For example, let us say that the mean annual number of

> new cancer cases in a village of a certain size is 10.  The Poisson

> equation then shows that approximately one such village in 500 will

> have 20 or more new cases per year.  Not at all unreasonable!

> It is necessary to determine the probability of existence of a

> cancer cluster from random statistics before searching for a

> specific cause.



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