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

["Otto G. Raabe" <ograabe@UCDAVIS.EDU>]

At 10:58 AM 1/2/03 EST, RuthWeiner@AOL.COM wrote: 
> The map is a map of cancer mortality, not incidence.  While it is age-adjusted, it does not provide the fraction of deaths that are cancer deaths, and generally seems to follow both population and total mortality (e.g., Las Vegas, NV has a growing population of retirees, so the number of people who die there increases, and thus, as anticipated, cancer mortality would increase).  I don't think one can draw any conclusion about the cause of cancer from such a map.
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January 3, 2003
Davis, CA

Actually, the data presented are age-corrected so that this suggested age distortion does not apply to these data.

Otto
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