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Re: report finds radium raises risk of bone cancer in men
While I have not looked at the report myself, how do
you know it is an ecological study? Maybe they have
radium data from the water consumed by the patients,
so you can correlate the radium consumed with the
cancer incident. With Dr. Cohen's study, you do not
know it the persons who developed lung cancers were
those who were smoked.
--- Tom Mohaupt <tom.mohaupt@WRIGHT.EDU> wrote:
> This apparently was an ecological study. Isn't it
> amazing that with all
> the heat Dr. Cohen has taken, most ecological
> studies are presented with
> little or no opposition, especially if they have the
> "right" answer.
>
> Norm Cohen wrote:
>
> > thought you'd find this interesting:
> >
> > norm
> >
> >
> >
>
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> >
> > REPORT FINDS RADIUM RAISES RISK OF BONE CANCER IN
> MEN
> >
> > Date: 030921
> > From: http://www.nj.com/newsflash/jersey/
> >
> > Associated Press, 9/19/03
> >
> > Trenton - Men in sections of the southern and
> central parts of the
> > state where levels of radium in the drinking water
> exceed federal
> > standards have a slightly higher risk of getting a
> rare type of bone
> > cancer, health officials said Friday.
> >
> > The state Department of Health and Senior Services
> released the
> > findings of a study that also found that 17 water
> systems and
> > subsystems in Atlantic, Burlington, Camden,
> Cumberland, Gloucester,
> > Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Ocean and Salem
> counties had levels of
> > radium that exceeded standards for radiological
> contamination.
> >
> > The report said the risk of developing
> osteosarcoma, a rare type of
> > bone cancer, is three times higher for men exposed
> to radium in
> > drinking water over a long period of time.
> Osteosarcoma occurs in only
> > three people per million annually on average in
> New Jersey.
> >
> > The rate found in the study was highest in men age
> 25 and over. There
> > was no increased risk among females found by the
> study.
> >
> > State health officials said the findings are in
> line with previous
> > studies conducted in other parts of the United
> States and Canada.
> >
> > Radium is a naturally occurring radioactive
> element found in ground
> > water throughout the United States. It is found in
> New Jersey,
> > particularly beneath the central and southern
> parts of the state.
> >
> > The New Jersey study reviewed cases of
> osteosarcoma diagnosed from
> > 1979-98 and water tested from 1997-2000.
> >
=====
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Louis D. Brandeis, Supreme Court decision in Olmstead v. U.S., 1928
-- John
John Jacobus, MS
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