Re: [OEM] Flight Attendant Breast CA Debate, BMJ -Reply

[Laurie Taylor <laurie-taylor@uiowa.edu>]

In regards to smoking and breast cancer, I belive the American Cancer
Society has indicated that second hand smoke contributes to an increased
risk of breast cancer?

At 09:54 AM 1/13/99 -0600, you wrote:
>I agree that the pesticide exposure looks like a possible contributing
>factor, and the radiation exposure can't be ignored.... but isn't smoking
>also a risk factor in breast cancer?  It always seems to me that people on
>airplanes with its limited air supply were exposed to significant amounts
>of cigarette smoke.  Has anyone ever looked for a synergistic effect
>between cigarettes and DDT?  Maybe all three factors are actually
>working together. 
>
>Joelle Key
>jkey@mail.state.tn.us
>
>>>> Joel Baumbaugh <baumbaug@nosc.mil> 01/13/99 09:13am >>>
>	RADSAFERS,
>
>	I just received this from another list I'm on.  Yet one more
>retrospective
>cancer-type study that "drags in" radiation as a possible cause - and
>who
>knows, they may be right...but I'd "prefer" to believe the pesticide
>theory...jb
>
>	Joel Baumbaugh (baumbaug@nosc.mil)
>	SSC-SD
>
>
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