RE: 700 cancer cases caused by X-rays

[RuthWeiner@aol.com]

Absolutely!  And the same is true for the lead article in the last Health Physics Newsletter -- Dr. Puskin and EPA's attribution of all those LCFs to radon.



Ruth



In a message dated 2/2/2004 7:38:19 AM Eastern Standard Time, "Stabin, Michael" <michael.g.stabin@vanderbilt.edu> writes:



>

>As with the AJR article "reporting" excess cancers in pediatric patients

>who may have received higher than necessary CT exposures, or other

>publications that use LNT to hypothesize excess cancers from low level

>radiation exposures, shouldn't such submissions be rejected during peer

>review for violating the basic principle, taught in every sophomore

>engineering class, of not extrapolating beyond the bounds of the

>observed data? If I submitted an article to a journal saying I had

>tested some detector over a given range, and then claimed that the

>detector would surely work perfectly at a range two or three orders of

>magnitude below my measurements, it would be rejected (at least that

>claim would have to be removed). The use of LNT to set *policy* outside

>of the range in which excess cancers can clearly be demonstrated is

>necessary at present and reasonable. But its use to define *science*, in

>peer-reviewed literature, seems much less defensible.

>

>Mike

>

>

>Michael G. Stabin, PhD, CHP

>Assistant Professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences 

>Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences 

>Vanderbilt University 

>1161 21st Avenue South

>Nashville, TN 37232-2675 

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>

> 

>

>-----Original Message-----

>From: Fred Dawson [mailto:fd003f0606@blueyonder.co.uk] 

>Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 2:07 AM

>To: radsafe

>Subject: 700 cancer cases caused by X-rays

>

>

>     The Times reports

>

>                  January 30, 2004

>

>http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,174-982118,00.html

>                  700 cancer cases caused by X-rays

>                  By Sam Lister

>

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