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AW: Article: Lung cancer screening raises OR LOWERS lung cancerrisk
Susan,
I have for years tried to understand the concept of manrem - later personrem
in the USA and personSv in the "rest of the world" - because as you stated I
myself thought that an enhanced exposure of whom so ever would imply an
enhanced risk of myself. No, this is not the case, if you consider a large
number of people - maybe the population of the USA. Any X-ray procedure will
enhance the US personSv's and therefore the risk for the total population -
but not yours! Not to forget that this works only with LNT.....
It should be much easier to reduce risks and I have demonstrated it a few
days ago again when I met my many (female) cousins at "Fuhrgassl-Huber" in
Neustift (the place we visited together last December) and again I used
public transport in order not to take the risk of driving with more than 0.5
permille of alcohol in blood.
Best regards,
Franz
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Von: owner-radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
[mailto:owner-radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu]Im Auftrag von Susan Gawarecki
Gesendet: Dienstag, 29. Juni 2004 19:18
An: RadSafe; crispy_bird@YAHOO.COM
Betreff: Re: Article: Lung cancer screening raises OR LOWERS lung
cancerrisk
Aside from questions regarding the animal models, I have a problem with
"population dose" which seems to imply that if my secretary has an x-ray
that it somehow increases my risk. If epidemiologists can't coax any
cause-and-effect risk relationship from doses below 125 mSv, then why assume
a linear effect? There are more important risks to spend money on reducing.
For example, around my area, about every week some 18-30 year old (generally
male) commits inadvertant suicide and/or homicide by automobile. Wouldn't
pouring those resources into better driver education, law enforcement, and
road improvements provide a significantly reduced risk to the general
population? For the worst drivers, an out-of-work HP could be assigned to
monitor his driving.
My own opinions,
Susan Gawarecki
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