Shipyard workers etc

[Thurman Wenzl <tbwenzl@YAHOO.COM>]

I know it's a little late to be following up on this

dialog of nearly a month ago, but I didn't notice if

anyone pointed out that the Matanoski study, never

having appeared in the peer-reviewed literature, is

available from CEDR - at (I think) cedr.lbl.gov (all

452 pages)



On dose distributions, she reported that about 9% of

her monitored cohort had cum doses above 5 rem, while

Rinsky (1981 Lancet on Portsmouth shipyard only)

reported about 11.3% above that point (with a median

of 540 mrem).



NIOSH is following up on the Rinsky study.



Thurman Wenzl

..usual disclaimers..; these are my own thoughts.



From: "Strom, Daniel J" <strom@PNL.GOV> 

Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2003 15:17:38 -0800 

Reply-To: "Strom, Daniel J" <strom@PNL.GOV> 

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Ted,



The NWs were quite comparable to other working groups

in non-shipyard

studies, regardless of dose. The result that sticks

out like a sore thumb in

the NSWS is the NNWs, not the NWs. The NNWs

systematically differ from NWs

and NNWs in other cohorts. This result is inconsistent

with other rad and

non-rad occupational epidemiology studies.



- Dan Strom







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