RE: Cancer Rates and Risks

["Hill, Eric D" <Eric.Hill@mkg.com>]

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> From: 	Strom, Daniel J[SMTP:daniel.j.strom@pnl.gov]
> Reply To: 	radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu
> Sent: 	Friday, November 19, 1999 4:35 PM
> To: 	Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: 	Cancer Rates and Risks
> 
> RADSAFERS,
> 
> I found the National Cancer Institute's Cancer Rates and Risks (1996)
> http://rex.nci.nih.gov/NCI_Pub_Interface/raterisk/index.html to be
> fascinating
> reading, with articles on ionizing radiation (John Boice) and lung cancer
> (Jay
> Lubin).  There are geographic variations in incidence rates of various
> cancers
> by factors of hundreds, and 10-fold variations are common.  Since cancers
> are
> multi-factorial diseases, it isn't just background radiation at work...
> 
> There's plenty more to explore at the NCI site http://rex.nci.nih.gov/
> 
> - Dan Strom
> 
> The opinions expressed above, if any, are mine alone and have not been
> reviewed
> or approved by Battelle, the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, or the
> U.S.
> Department of Energy.
> 
> Daniel J. Strom, Ph.D., CHP
> Risk Analysis & Health Protection Group, Environmental Technology
> Division,
> Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
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