Re: Re[2]: Activists Criticize US Advice On 'Dirty Bomb' Exposur

[John Jacobus <crispy_bird@YAHOO.COM>]

Thanks for the information.  I also found an

interesting review of cancer risks at

http://www.cancer.org/downloads/PRO/Cancer%20Statistics%202004.ppt



--- BLHamrick@aol.com wrote:



>  

> In a message dated 12/10/2004 8:04:39 A.M. Pacific

> Standard Time,  

> crispy_bird@YAHOO.COM writes:

> 

> Could  you please cite your source?  Of course, this

> still shows no  appreciable increase in cancer rates

> following the use of a radiological  dispersal

> device.

> 

> 

> Just FYI, the following is a quote from the NIH 

>

(_http://science.education.nih.gov/supplements/nih1/cancer/guide/understanding3.htm_

> 

>

(http://science.education.nih.gov/supplements/nih1/cancer/guide/understanding3.htm)

> ):

>  

> "Cancer researchers use the term lifetime risk to

> indicate the  probability 

> that a person will develop cancer over the course of

> a lifetime. In  the United 

> States, men have a 1 in 2 lifetime risk of

> developing cancer, and  women have 

> a 1 in 3 risk."

> 





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Will Rogers 





-- John

John Jacobus, MS

Certified Health Physicist

e-mail:  crispy_bird@yahoo.com





		

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