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- From: geb@dsl.pitt.edu (gordon e. banks)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Re: A Question/Proposal for "Health Care Consumers"
- Message-ID: <15747@pitt.UUCP>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 15:30:30 GMT
- References: <15225@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> <15666@pitt.UUCP> <54475@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
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- In article <54475@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes:
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- >identified in virtually all cases. In the above example, it is
- >almost certain that at least one case of cancer has occurred because
- >of the radiation from mammograms. There are well documented cases of
- >almost anything. So we not only have to think in terms of careful
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- Why, Herman, I'm surprised at you! How could you possibly document
- in an individual case of breast cancer that it was caused by
- radiation of mammograms? You could only prove such a thing
- statistically by studying large groups that got mammograms
- at various frequencies.
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- Gordon Banks N3JXP | "Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and
- geb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu | it is shameful to surrender it too soon."
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