Re: Cancer Assessment Press Release

["Otto G. Raabe" <ograabe@ucdavis.edu>]

At 09:57 AM 1/30/98 -0600, Andy Hull wrote:

>NY STATE CANCER REGISTRY TO LOOK AT CANCER RATES 
>AMONG 21,000 PAST AND CURRENT BNL WORKERS
>
>UPTON, NY - The New York State Cancer Registry will soon begin compiling
>reliminary cancer rates among the 21,263 people who have worked at the U.S.
>Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory since 1947.
>The Cancer Registry will begin by cross-referencing the names of former and
>current BNL workers with the names in its database of all New Yorkers
>diagnosed with cancer between 1979 and 1993, the latest year for which data
>are available.
>	The Cancer Registry will then calculate rates for all types of cancer in
>BNL workers who were alive and living in New York during that period, and
>compare them with rates from Long Island and the entire state.  The results
>should be available in mid-1998.
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January 30, 1998
Davis, CA 

I will predict the results based on other studies of "nuclear workers":
Persons working at Brookhaven will be found to have lower age-corrected
cancer rates than other members of the population of Long Island or New
York State. This will be discounted as the result of "the healthy worker
effect."

Otto
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