Re: Article: Lung cancer screening raises lung cancer risk

[John Jacobus <crispy_bird@YAHOO.COM>]

Did not say it did.  I am only reporting what I found.



--- "Otto G. Raabe" <ograabe@ucdavis.edu> wrote:

> At 01:43 PM 6/18/2004, John Jacobus wrote:

> >The Radiation Effects Research Foundation show 63

> >deaths (2% of 3391 cancer deaths) between 5 mSv and

> >200 mSv.

>

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> Since the square root of 3391 is 58, 63 extra cases

> do not show a 

> statistically significant increase.

> 

> Otto

> 

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> Center for Health & the Environment

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> University of California, Davis, CA 95616

> E-Mail: ograabe@ucdavis.edu

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-- John

John Jacobus, MS

Certified Health Physicist

e-mail:  crispy_bird@yahoo.com





		

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