Re: Did A-Bomb exposure lead to better survival ?

[Free Spirit <FRANK@rover.bsd.uchicago.edu>]

>From:	SMTP%"radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu" 24-JAN-1996 03:43:52.35
>From: John Goldsmith <gjohn@bgumail.bgu.ac.il>
>
>	In searching for good news to tell the public, John Cameron must 
have been pretty careful not to read all the news.  ...
>
>                                   Relative Risks 
>                                    at 2 Gy        Excess Deaths/Gy
>                                                 per 10,000 per-yr
>                                                                             
>Non-malignant Dis. 
>Total                           1.06 (1.02, 1.09)    1.18 (0.51,1.19) 
> Under 40 ATB, Obs. 1966-85     1.19 (1.10, 1.29)    1.69 (0.90,2.62) 
>
>Cancer       Total              1.78 (1.64,1.92)    10.00 ( 8.36,11.8)

	In defense of Dr Cameron, the above data is for doses (as I read
	the post,) slightly less than 50% lethal dose. Even at that level,
	the effects are barely high enough to emerge from background.

	Scaled down to typical doses the public gets from medical and other
	man-made sources, even without some alteration to the curve due
	to cellular repair mechanisms, this is good news.

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