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RE: Radiation Hormesis
It also helps to remember as that you get older you do
not run as fast. As such, I try to refrain from
playing "chicken" with passing cars.
--- "Flanigan, Floyd" <Floyd.Flanigan@nmcco.com>
wrote:
> I believe we ran this thread about a year and a half
> ago on statistical probability and age/time.
> Obviously, the more time you spend exposed to any
> possibility of an incident, the greater the
> possibility becomes of the incident happening no
> matter if it is cancer due to length of life of
> being hit by a car because you ran across the same
> remote country road enough times. All things good or
> bad have an increased probability of occurring with
> the passage of time. It is, however, inversely
> proportional if I remember correctly and has no apex
> junction. The theory of infinite halves negates the
> absoluteness of an event occurring eventually. The
> odds simply increase by smaller and smaller gains as
> the progression continues to infinity.
>
> Floyd W. Flanigan B.S.Nuc.H.P.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Jacobus [mailto:crispy_bird@YAHOO.COM]
> Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 9:05 AM
> To: Vernig, Peter G.; radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
> Subject: RE: Radiation Hormesis
>
>
> Dr. Luckey gave a presentation that I attended where
> he claimed that the incidences of cancer were
> increasing during the last century aecause we
> reducing
> radiation exposure. My comment was if changes in
> life
> expectancy considered. In 1900, the life expectancy
> was 45 years. In 2000, it was 73 years. If you
> look
> at the statistics, the risks of breast and prostate
> cancers increase as one ages.
>
> --- "Vernig, Peter G." <Peter.Vernig@MED.VA.GOV>
> wrote:
> > Group.
> >
> > I suggest those interested in it, search radiation
> > hormesis and look among
> > other things for publications by T. D. Luckey. He
> > is one of the foremost
> > proponents of radiation hormesis. I attended a
> > conference in Berkeley in
> > the mid 1980s on hormesis. There seemed to be a
> lot
> > of evidence to support
> > it in various biological systems. Luckey goes
> > farther than most in saying
> > that there is a minimum requirement of radiation
> > like vitamins and places
> > that coincidentally at 5 rem per year with I
> believe
> > 10 rem as optimal. I
> > think it safe to say that he goes beyond what most
> > proponents of hormesis do
> > in that regard however at the conference there was
> a
> > reference list that to
> > my recollection was between 50 and 100 papers that
> > supported a hormetic
> > affect in a given system.
> >
> > A case made by proponents was that many of the
> > studies supporting it were
> > not published or given much credence if published
> > because they ran counter
> > to the accepted concept of a linear dose response
> > curve.
> >
> > I am neutral on hormesis and do not wish to take
> up
> > a debate on it on
> > Radsafe. I am merely pointing out an avenue of
> > investigation for those
> > interested.
> >
> > Any opinions expressed in this message are mine
> > alone and do not necessarily
> > represent those of the Eastern Colorado VA Health
> > Care System, The
> > Department of Veterans Affairs, or the United
> States
> > Government.
> >
> > Peter G. Vernig
> > Radiation Safety Officer, VA Medical Center 1055
> > Clermont St. Denver, CO
> > 80220, ATTN: RSO MS 115; peter.vernig@med.va.gov;
> > personal
> > peter_vernig@hotmail.com; 303.399.8020 ext. 2447,
> > FAX: 303.393-5026 [Off on
> > weekends] Alternate fax 303-377-5686 [Service
> 24/7]
> > "...whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever
> is
> > right, whatever is
> > pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable,
> if
> > anything is found to be
> > excellent or praiseworthy, let your mind dwell on
> > these things."
> > Paul of Tarsus
> >
> >
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