RE: Cancer Rates and Risks

["Heinmiller, Bruce" <heinmillerb@aecl.ca>]

Or it may be based strictly on incidence data.  If this is the case, both
thyroid and breast are near the top, and the statement may stand as correct
in this context.

Bruce Heinmiller CHP
heinmillerb@aecl.ca


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> From: 	Richard Smart[SMTP:R.Smart@unsw.edu.au]
> Reply To: 	radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu
> Sent: 	Monday, November 22, 1999 6:53 PM
> To: 	Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: 	RE: Cancer Rates and Risks
> 
> At 04:46 P 22.11.1999 -0600, Bruce Heinmiller wrote:
> >The NCI article on ionizing radiation contains the following statement:
> "In
> >general, the breast, thyroid, and bone marrow are most sensitive to the
> >effects of ionizing radiation."  
> 
> Perhaps this is meant to reflect the latent periods for cancers of these
> organs rather than the absolute risk.  If I remember correctly,  the order
> in which cancers were confirmed in the atomic bomb survivors was :
> leukaemia, thyroid cancer and then breast cancer.
> 
> Regards
> 
> 
> Richard Smart PhD
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> Department of Nuclear Medicine
> St. George Hospital
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