Re: Apparent anti-correlations between geographic radiation and cancer are no...

[RuthWeiner@AOL.COM]

In a message dated 1/1/03 11:42:09 PM Mountain Standard Time, eic@shaw.ca writes:


> Cancer incidence and geography
>
> seem to be very strongly related.



Actually, apparently not.  A couple of years ago, an article in the New Yorker looked at "disease clusters" including "cancer clusters" and found that there were almost no geographic "clusters" -- that "clusters" occurred when lifestyles and habits were similar (e.g., lung cancer in smokers) but rarely were correlated with geography or place of residence.


Ruth

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