Re: Cancer Assessment Press Release

[JMUCKERHEIDE@delphi.com]

There should be a parallel effort to identify badged vs non-badged workers,
and badged workers with reported doses vs badged workers without reported
doses in the 21,262 BNL employees to enable assessment of the effect of rad
exposure within the BNL workers. 

Thanks.

Regards, Jim Muckerheide
jmuckerheide@delphi.com
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> 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.
> >****************************************************************************
> 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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