RE: Cancer Study Continues

["Caracappa, Peter F (CRD)" <caracappa@crd.ge.com>]

	Is 6 cancer cases out of 1700 individuals in 10 years statistically 
	valid? Bernie, comments?

Depends on the type of cancer.  For cancer in general, probably not, but if this _particular_ cancer
if "naturally" found in, say, one in a million patients, six out of 1700 may be very significant.

Of course, that information is not provided - and rarely is in any type of news story.  Just another
example of how the facts can be changed to fit the assumptions.

Peter Caracappa

g GE Corporate R&D
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