RE: Cancer deficiency clusters

["Scott, Bob A" <bscott@rwmc.org>]

	It was many years ago when I read (no memory as to where, or

authorship) that for every one nuclear plant where there was found a cancer

cluster nearby, there were 50 nuclear plants where the cancer incidence in

the vicinity was lower than that expected for the general population.



Bob Scott, RPO

Roger Williams Medical Center

Providence, RI  

bscott@rwmc.org

 



-----Original Message-----

From: jjcohen [mailto:jjcohen@PRODIGY.NET]



I am not an epidemiologist, so perhaps someone else might shed some

light on this question.-- Suppose a community were found to

have a cancer incidence significantly below statistical expectation.

Certainly such communities must exist, perhaps even near nuclear power

plants.

What are the chances that one might obtain funding to investigate probable

causes for  cancer deficiency? Has such  study ever been done?



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