AW: [ RadSafe ] BEIR VII

[Rainer.Facius at dlr.de]

In addition to this Van Pelt paper (Health Physics 85#4(2003)397-403)

 

you should also consult Cohen's amendment/rectification

 

Cohen B L, 

The Van Pelt reassessment of our lung cancer vs. Radon study. 

Health Physics 86#3(2004)316-318

 

together with Van Pelt's reply, p. 318

 

Regards, Rainer


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Von: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl im Auftrag von Muckerheide, James
Gesendet: Sa 09.07.2005 00:02
An: John Jacobus; Otto G. Raabe; Dale Boyce; radsafe at radlab.nl
Betreff: RE: [ RadSafe ] BEIR VII



If you say so.  Where?

Regards, Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: John Jacobus [mailto:crispy_bird at yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, July 01, 2005 9:23 AM
To: Muckerheide, James; Otto G. Raabe; Dale Boyce; radsafe at radlab.nl
Subject: RE: [ RadSafe ] BEIR VII

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
>
> **********************************************
> Prof. Otto G. Raabe, Ph.D., CHP
> Center for Health & the Environment
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> University of California, Davis, CA 95616
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