Re: report finds radium raises risk of bone cancer in men

["Otto G. Raabe" <ograabe@UCDAVIS.EDU>]

At 01:20 PM 9/22/03 -0400, Gerald Nicholls wrote:

>In 1996 and 1997, while supporting the NJDHSS's investigations of a

>"childhood cancer cluster" in Dover Township, NJ, we found that Ra-224

>was a significant contributor to the gross alpha activity of drinking

>water samples from the Kirkwood-Cohansey Aquifer.  

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Do you mean, first they observed a "cancer cluster" and then they looked

for radioactivity?



Cancer clusters can appear just as the result of random events. Does anyone

look for places with extraordinarily low cancer rates and then look for

radioactivity to explain them?



Otto



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