Radon Research

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).

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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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Author:

Gig Sanit

Abstract:

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

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

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

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

Factors thought to be related to lung cancer include smoking, radon, and educational
attainment. These factors were analyzed in the present ecological study for Oregon with
correlation and linear regression statistics. A moderate, inverse, and statistically significant
correlation was found with educational attainment while surprisingly, negligible and statistically
insignificant correlations were found with smoking and radon. More rigorous
research such as case-control study designs, are indicated to verify or refute these findings.