Re: Refeence material

[Jim Vandergrift <jfvande@yahoo.com>]

I do not know of the specific document you refer to,
but many of these stats are for the number of
procedures not the number of patients.  This could
greatly affect the portion of the population involved.

--- OSU Physics <brogers@mps.ohio-state.edu> wrote:
> Mr Jo,
> 
> I don't know the exact population of the USA, but
> roughly (and this is
> assuming that the group of people you refer to as
> "Americans" are citizens
> of the USA) 112 million would represent 40 to 45% of
> the population.  I
> strongly gather that there were not 112 million
> Americans receiving such
> procedures...  Therefore, if your recollection is
> correct, the document most
> assuredly was incorrect.  I'd even be suspect of
> 11.2 million.
> 
> -Brent Rogers
> brogers@mps.ohio-state.edu
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Mr Jo <mjo@scs.unr.edu>
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
> Sent: Monday, September 20, 1999 7:31 PM
> Subject: Refeence material
> 
> 
> > I read a document sometime ago and I believe it
> was a NRC document. The
> document
> > stated that there are 112 million Americans every
> year undergo nuclear
> medicine
> > or radiation therapy procedure (based on my
> recollection). I would like to
> find
> > the document again. Any lead will be greatly
> appreciated. Thank you. M. Jo
> >
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