Re: Newspaper article on Plutonium

[Brian Gaulke <Brian_Gaulke.HWC@inet.hwc.ca>]

Based on the Canadian statistics you are wrong.  Between 1969 and 1997 
(estimated), excluding non-melanoma skin cancer and lung cancer there has been 
a 45% increase in cancer incidence for males and an 11% increase for females, 
age adjusted.





blc/ @ pitt.edu (Bernard L Cohen) 
97/09/16 09:44

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Subject: Re: Newspaper article on Plutonium


On Tue, 16 Sep 1997, John Goldsmith wrote:

> The incidence of testicular cancer and of leukemia and malignant nmelanoma
> have been increasing as has prostate cancer.  Although smoking is the
> principal cause of lung cancer, it is not the only relevant exposure;
> asbestos, arsenic, radiation, and coke oven emissions are among other
> recognized exposures.      John Goldsmith, M.D., M.P.H.

> 
> On Mon, 15 Sep 1997, Bernard L Cohen wrote:

> >  There has *NOT* been an increase in age-adjusted cancer rates with
> > the exception of lung cancer which, it is universally agreed, was due to
> > increased smoking. I believe ACSH has a booklet on this subject.

 --What I meant to say was that if you discount lung cancer, there
has not been an increase in age-adjusted total cancers.