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Re: Radon and Lung Cancer: What the studies really say.



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Bill,
How many of the 18 studies involved smokers?
Tom

epirad@mchsi.com wrote:
Fifteen out of the 18 major case-control studies reported an increased risk 

for radon exposure at 100 Bq/m3. This is also in agreement with the North 

American Residential pooling.  Further, unlike ecologic studies, 

misclassification in case-control studies generally bias the results torward 

no association as we have demonstrated previously.  As presented at a recent 

meeting of the American Statistical Society, the North American Residential 

Pooling study supports the LNT. 



  http://www.aarst.org/news_pdf/2002_IowaU_Follow-up_Study.pdf

  
On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 epirad@mchsi.com wrote:



    
 there have been innumerable case-control studies that support

the LNT that have both external and internal validity.  I can provide details

if you email me directly.

      
	--There are case-control studies that seem to indicate agreement

with LNT and others that seem to indicate disagreement. The

statement normally made by those who present these studies is that they

are "consistent with" LNT. I don't remember statements that they "support"

LNT. Their statistics are too poor to make such claims.



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