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RE: Daunt, British Journal of Radiology, 75 (2002),639-640
Looking at these comments I get the feeling that John is jumping to
conclusions. (Actually, that is only form of exercise I get lately.)
The standard mortality rate is finally given as 0.71. Is that really
significant? If you looked as cancers in a single town in England, would
you get a similar finding? I noticed that it changed as confounding
factors, such as socioeconomic and occupation, are corrected for, the SMR
goes up which means more radiologist are dying. If you are not careful, the
SMR will equal 1.0. I also noticed that this is based on fatal cancers and
not incidences. Could it be that this group has better access to the newer
cancer treatments? But I guess that thing that I find most interesting, is
that there is no exposure information. I would assume that would be
important, don't you?
By the way, you never sent me any of the references on the potassium cell
experiments. Again, I would feel foolish if I accepted somebody's word on
this important research and it was later proven not to exist.
Have a good weekend.
-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
3050 Traymore Lane
Bowie, MD 20715-2024
E-mail: jenday1@email.msn.com (H)
-----Original Message-----
From: Muckerheide [mailto:muckerheide@attbi.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2002 11:32 PM
To: rad-sci-l@ans.ep.wisc.edu; radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
Cc: Nicholas Daunt
Subject: Daunt, British Journal of Radiology, 75 (2002),639-640
. . .
Friends,
Courtesy of John Cameron, here is the "other letter" in the BJR (in addition
to John Cameron's letter which he had distributed here when accepted - let
me know, or John, if you also want a copy of his letter).
. . .
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