Re: Cancer Assessment Press Release

["Scott D. Kniffin" <Scott.D.Kniffin.1@gsfc.nasa.gov>]

Otto and all,

Would some one give me a readers digest/simple version of what 
"healthy worker effect" is.  I've tried explaning this but (lay) people 
just get lost in my long winded explanations.  I need to better my 
communication skills again.  Thanks.

Scott Kniffin

Scott.D.Kniffin.1@gsfc.nasa.gov
RSO, Unisys Corp. @ Lanham, MD
CHO, Radiation Effects Facility, GSFC, NASA, Greenbelt, MD

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reviewed by my employer or supervisor.  

At 10:35 01/30/98 -0600, you wrote:
>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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