Re: Newspaper article on Plutonium

[Bernard L Cohen <blc+@pitt.edu>]

	I am checking on my sources and will respond in the next few days.


On Tue, 16 Sep 1997, Brian Gaulke wrote:

> 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.
> 
> > >  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.