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RE: Cancer deficiency clusters, "U" in Workers
Howard,
As usual, what does this have to do with the question at hand? This is a
cohort study and my comments are only in reference to this cohort study, not
the US.
Maybe if you were paid as an epidemiologist, you would be more careful in
what you write.
-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
3050 Traymore Lane
Bowie, MD 20715-2024
E-mail: jenday1@email.msn.com (H)
-----Original Message-----
From: hflong@postoffice.pacbell.net [mailto:hflong@postoffice.pacbell.net]
Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 11:42 PM
To: Jacobus, John (OD/ORS)
Cc: 'hflong@pacbell.net'; 'RadSafe'
Subject: Re: Cancer deficiency clusters, "U" in Workers
John Jacobus (and others with interest in radiation deficiency),
Indeed, you wrote, "only the non-nuclear workers had a statistically
significant increase [4sd]. I guess you can conclude that RADIATION REDUCES
THE RISK of lung cancer in this cohort.." John Jacobus 7/20/02, below
(emphasis and insert by HL)
Note 1. Total mortality .76 of very comparable coworkers.
2. Location on coast , background radiation <0.5 rem/yr, like much of the
USA.
(potentially applicable there)
Will I see you this Sat/Sun at Sheraton Colorado Springs to question Cuttler
and others on hormesis?
Will you support the ethics of placebo-controlled studies, like 1. radon
supplement (or sham) to 2-3 pCi/L (74-111Bq/m3) and 2. gamma of 1-5 rem
(cSv)/yr (or sham)where <0.5 pCi/L (most of USA coast)?. Measures should be
blood immune indicators, cancers incidence and longevity.
Howard Long (non-salaried epidemiologist)
. . .
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