Re: Bethlehem workers and Western NY State

[John Jacobus <crispy_bird@YAHOO.COM>]

The tissue weighting factor for the colon is 0.12.  



Colorectal cancer is the second leading fatal cancer

in the US.



http://www.cdc.gov/cancer/screenforlife/yahoo/ads/facts.htm



However, radiation is not listed as a primary risk

factor

http://www.cdc.gov/cancer/screenforlife/qanda.htm#causes



--- Steven Dapra <sjd@swcp.com> wrote:

> March 27

> 

> 	Posted by Louis Ricciuti (at the request of Marvin

> Resnikoff):  "Ingestion

> of uranium would be much more effective in yielding

> a radiation dose to the

> colon and stomach; several of these workers

> developed colon cancer."

> 

> 	Is radiation exposure a known risk factor for colon

> cancer?

> 

> Steven Dapra

> sjd@swcp.com

> 

> 

>

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John Jacobus, MS

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