Well,
at least radon got a mention. We all know that what appears in print may not
necessarily reflect the nuance of what was actually said in an interview, but
it is critical for everyone to understand that a case of cancer should be looked
at as not necessarily having only a single cause.
There
is abundant evidence that RADON AND SMOKING ACTING TOGETHER are
responsible for most the radon-induced lung cancer, and so a not insignificant
fraction of the lung cancers among the 90% who have some history of smoking
would include radon as at least one of the causes.
Kevin M. Stewart
Director
of Environmental Health
American
Lung Association of the Mid-Atlantic
From: International Web
Resource for Radon Professionals [mailto:RADONPROFESSIONALS@LIST.UIOWA.EDU] On
Behalf Of Andreas C. George
Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2010 9:02 AM
To: RADONPROFESSIONALS@LIST.UIOWA.EDU
Subject: Re: [RNPROF] Hypotheses generating study
In the NY Daily News today Dec 15, 2010 an article about lung
cancer written by Dr. Kenneth Rosenzweig claims that lung cancer remains
the most deadly type, and smoking is almost always to blame. Dr. Rosenzweig is
the Chairman of the Department of Oncology at Mount Sinai Hospital.
Of the 160,000 annual lung cancers about 90,000 occur in men and
70,000 in women. About 437 people die from lung cancer daily.
He says about 10% of the people who develop lung cancer never
smoked. He says environmental factors like radon exposure can increase
risk and some people are genetically predisposed.
The most common symptoms are similar to a pneumonia that is not
getting better.
Andy
George
In
a message dated 12/14/2010 6:56:27 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
bill-field@UIOWA.EDU writes:
Excerpt from the
paper
“In the absence
of effective early detection and therapeutic
tools, primary
prevention is likely to be the only way to reduce
the burden of
pancreatic cancer. The only well-established
modifiable risk
factor for pancreatic cancer is tobacco smoking.
Results from
this study suggest that radon exposure may be
associated with
an increased risk of developing pancreatic
cancer, making
radon another potential modifiable risk factor.
However, like those of any other ecological study, these
results
can be used to generate a hypothesis and cannot be
generalized
to the population or used to establish a cause-effect
relationship.
Hence, analytic studies with individual level data will
be
necessary to address the association between radon and
pancreatic cancer.”
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Email:
bill-field@uiowa.edu
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