Re: Compensation can be awarded based on fear

[BLHamrick@aol.com]

In a message dated 3/11/2003 3:42:39 PM Pacific Standard Time, michael.g.stabin@vanderbilt.edu writes:


> In absolutely every workplace in the US, one in four workers will
>
> get cancer.



Actually, according to the NIH, one-half of all males, and one-third of all females will suffer some type of cancer within their lifetime:


http://science.education.nih.gov/supplements/nih1/cancer/guide/understanding3.htm 


Estimates of fatal cancers range from 20-25%, but the most reliable statistics I've seen indicate that (at least for the foreseable future - 5 to 10 years) the fatal cancer rate will be about 23%.


Barbara