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Re: Compensation can be awarded based on fear



This is why I always say "the risk is approximately . . ."  First of all, the numbers are based on sampling, on counting every record and report.  Second, the values change over time as cancer follows a stochastic distribution.

 BLHamrick@AOL.COM wrote:

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



-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
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