RE: Utah study of lung cancer and radon in LDS (Mormon) women

[Ted, Rockwell]

It's hard to judge the validity of a relationship from these data when there

are no error bars.  The error bars shown in BEIR are so large that they wipe

out any confidence in a prediction of a relationship--particularly one

reported to three significant decimal places.



TR



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Subject: Re: Utah study of lung cancer and radon in LDS (Mormon) women





Jim,



Dale Sandler at NIEHS was the project officer for the study, it has not been

published but is included in a review of US studies I wrote.  I would post

this to the list, but I don't want to upset Jerry or others.  Obviously the

smoking rate was lower in Utah but so was the radon so it was harder to see

a

dose reponse.  The Utah data is incorporated in the North American Pooling

we

submitted, you may want to contact Dr. Sandler at NIEHS as to whether she

plans to write it up.  As of now, the most complete description of the study

is in a review I published.



See:

http://www.aarst.org/news_pdf/Review_of_Epidemiologic.pdf



Regards, Bill

> Radsafers,

> A while ago I was contacted by a University of Utah researcher who was

> trying to reconstruct the radon levels for residences of women in a

> case-control study of lung cancer in Utah.  LDS (Mormon) women were

> considered good subjects because of the lack of smoking generally among

that

> population, relatively long term residence in the same house, and other

> factors. (I may have some details wrong)

> Is this study still underway?

> Have any results been forthcoming?

>

> Jim Otton

> Energy Program

> U.S. Geological Survey

>

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