[ RadSafe ] BEIR VII

[Otto G. Raabe]

At 02:41 PM 6/30/2005, Dale Boyce wrote:
>I periodically like to point out when discussions like these arise that if 
>you take American Cancer Society data on cancer death rates by state and 
>plot them versus the mean altitude of the state there is a strong 
>anti-correlation.  That is the higher you live (and therefore the higher 
>your probable background exposure) the lower your risk of dying of cancer.
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Hawaii doesn't fit very well since it is low in altitude and low in cancer.

Otto

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Prof. Otto G. Raabe, Ph.D., CHP
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