[ RadSafe ] BEIR VII

[John Jacobus]

In the article I cited there is a strong correlation
with cancer and altitude.  If you would like a copy,
let me know.

--- "Muckerheide, James" <jimm at WPI.EDU> wrote:

> 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
> > (Street Address: Bldg. 3792, Old Davis Road)
> > University of California, Davis, CA 95616
> > E-Mail: ograabe at ucdavis.edu
> > Phone: (530) 752-7754   FAX: (530) 758-6140
> > *********************************************** 
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> John Jacobus, MS
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-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
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