From Name
Andreas C. George

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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R.
William Field, PHD
Email:
bill-field@uiowa.edu
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