Geographic variations in smoking radon.pdf

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Marcellus_Radon.pdf

Marvin Resnikoff, Ph.D., Senior Associate at Radioactive Waste Management Associates has just completed the attached study entitled Radon in Natural Gas from Marcellus Shale. It was filed on December 11, 2012 with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC). Dr. Resnikoff's study critiques DEC's Draft Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement, and concludes that based on currently available radon data there will be from 1183 to 30,484 excess deaths from lung cancer in New York State alone attributable to shale gas (see attached).

Dr. Resnikoff’s findings describing the potential for elevated radon concentrations in Marcellus shale presents a compelling case for a study that includes systematic testing of radon concentrations at the point-of-use for residential gas sources derived from Marcellus shale.

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Maine Institute for Human Genetics and Health; † Department of Spatial Information Science and Engineering, University of Maine; ‡ Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Maine.
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Authors:

Farah C, Beard K, Hess CT, Hock JM

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Visit: http://www.unce.unr.edu/programs/sites/radon/

Author:

Gig Sanit

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The paper gives the results of investigating chromosome aberrations in human peripheral blood lymphocytes due to DNA repair genes, such as hOGG1, ADPRT, APE1, XRCC1, XpG, XpC, XpD, and NBS1, upon long-term exposure to excess indoor radon concentrations. The frequency of chromosome aberrations was found to be significantly lower in the carriers of the genotype hOGG1 326 Ser/Ser (versus the variant Ser/Cys), APE1 148 Asp/Asp (versus Val/Ala and Ala/Ala). The study polymorphic systems were shown to be of value in giving rise to individual types of chromosome aberrations (single fragments and chromosome exchanges).

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1111.2395.pdf

Radiation Measurements at the Campus of Fukushima Medical University through the 2011 off the Pacific Coast of Tohoku Earthquake and Subsequent Nuclear Power Plant crisis

Author: Tsuneo Kobayashi

2011 radon articles.pdf

The following attachment contains a list of Radon (Rn222) papers that were published in journals, etc in 2011. Thank you to Mike Kitto for submitting this exhaustive and informative research compilation to our readers.

Radon and Skin Cancer in Southwest England: An Ecologic Study

Wheeler, Benedict W.; Allen, James; Depledge, Michael H.; Curnow, Alison

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Background:
Radon, a naturally occurring radioactive gas, is a carcinogen that causes a small proportion of lung cancers among exposed populations. Theoretical models suggest that radon may also be a risk factor for skin cancer, but epidemiologic evidence for this relationship is weak. In this study, we investigated ecologic associations between environmental radon concentration and the incidence of various types of skin cancer.

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Combination Epigenetic Therapy Has Efficacy in Patients with Refractory Advanced Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer

Corresponding Authors:
Charles M. Rudin, MD, PhD, Johns Hopkins University, Cancer Research Building 2, Room 544, 1550 Orleans Street, Baltimore, MD 21231. E-mail: rudin@jhmi.edu; or Malcolm V. Brock, MD, Johns Hopkins University, Cancer Research Building 1, Room 542, 1650 Orleans Street, Baltimore, MD 21231. E-mail: mbrock1@jhmi.edu

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Deadly radon in Montana.pdf

Noting a negative correlation between average radon levels and lung
cancer mortality in Montana counties, Hart (2011) “questions the notion
that radon is deadly in Montana.” Results from a much larger ecological
study of the correlation between county radon levels and lung cancer
mortality across the whole United States were published in the 1990s
(Cohen 1990, 1995). Like Hart, Cohen found an inverse correlation
between radon concentrations and lung cancer. Such ecological studies
suffer, however, from lack of individual information on radon exposures
and other lung cancer risk factors, including smoking. Indeed, there is
compelling evidence that the observed negative correlation was a spurious
one due to confounding by smoking. First, the same negative correlation
between radon and cancer mortality was observed for a variety of
smoking-related cancers, but not for cancers unaffected by smoking
(Puskin 2003). More recently, it has been found that – even using average