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RE: "Limit to Survival - Effect of Radiation
Ruth,
That is my point. If you use the right set of numbers, you can show what
you want. This is what the "anti's" do. Yes, we had fallout in the 1950s
and 1960s. But as the fallout decayed, our life expectancy increase.
Certainly the average worker exposure has been decreasing. There are
certainly enough population data to show that life has improved.
(By the way, I believe that screening chest x-rays for TB was stopped
because of the development of the skin test and the overall reduction of TB
in the population. Unfortunately, because of reduced health care spending,
the TB rate in starting to increase. You can say the skin test is a good
example of ALARA.)
Your last statement goes to the heart of my argument about low dose, dose
rate exposures.
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: RuthWeiner@aol.com [mailto:RuthWeiner@aol.com]
Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 11:20 AM
To: Jacobus, John (NIH/OD/ORS); radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
Subject: Re: "Limit to Survival - Effect of Radiation
. . .
I am not making a case for or against any of these uses of x-ray, and I
myself believe that they were a prudent exercise of an ALARA sort of
practice (e.g., when the risk from annual chest x-ray appears to exceed the
risk of tuberculosis, one doesn't require the x-ray any more). I just
wonder if there is not enough data available for any of these or similar
situations to draw some conclusions about either harm from exposure or
hormesis.
. . .
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