[ RadSafe ] BEIR VII

[Muckerheide, James]

Right Otto,  and Kerala and Guarapari and other sealevel high background
locations.

This correlation needs to look at background and altitude to try to see the
relative contributions.

Regards, Jim Muckerheide


-----Original Message-----
From: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl on behalf of Otto G. Raabe
Sent: Thu 6/30/2005 6:54 PM
To: Dale Boyce; radsafe at radlab.nl
Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] BEIR VII
 
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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