[ RadSafe ] BEIR VII

[John Jacobus]

Wasn't that done already?  

EPIDEMIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATIONS AMONG LUNG CANCER, RADON
EXPOSURE AND ELEVATION ABOVE SEA LEVEL-A REASSESSMENT
OF COHEN'S COUNTY LEVEL RADON STUDY.
Health Physics. 85(4):397-403, October 2003.
Van Pelt, Wesley R.

--- "Muckerheide, James" <jimm at wpi.edu> wrote:

> 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.
> ***********************************************
> Hawaii doesn't fit very well since it is low in
> altitude and low in cancer.
> 
> Otto
> 
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-- John
John Jacobus, MS
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