Re: English Radon Study

[D J Hornsey <bssdjh@bath.ac.uk>]

  Dear Joyce,
           The press release of the work did indicate publication in the
June issue of British Journal of Cancer. However it failed to appear. I
have contacted the Imperial Cancer Research Fund and they assure me it
will appear in one of the July issues that will be published  at the end
of July. It will be vol 78 number 3. You probably could get a copy of the
paper  from them, but I guess we will really have to wait until then
before commenting on the findings. Best wishes.

                                       David Hornsey 

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On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Joyce Davis wrote:

> The June Issue of Nuclear News (pg 18) has an item
> reporting  as follows:  
> An increased risk of lung cancer from Radon in the home
> appears to be confirmed by a large epidemiological
> case-study of people living in southwest England....  The
> latest study reported in the June issue of the British Journal
> of Cancer  was undertaken by the Imperial Cancer Research
> Fund ....   The study concludes that the estimated relative
> risk associated with a 100 Bq m(-3) increase in residential
> radon concentration is 0.08  (with a 95 percent confidence
> interval of -0.03 to 0.2).
> 
> Can anyone supply more information about this study ?  Did
> it account for smoking habits ?  
> 
> J. P. Davis
> joyced@dnfsb.gov