Re: Arsenic ingestion from well water associated withincreased risk of lung cancer

["Otto G. Raabe" <ograabe@UCDAVIS.EDU>]

December 22, 2004



My reading of the WHO information is that the lung cancer and skin cancer 

is believed to be caused by the ingestion of water containing arsenic. 

Ingestion of arsenic is believed to cause a host of systemic cancers.



However, the studies are all ecological studies. The WHO would throw out 

Bernie Cohen's results for radon  which are much stronger because they are 

ecological, while accepting these ecological studies about arsenic that are 

weak because there are several of them by different authors.



Otto



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