[net.ham-radio] Leukemia Link in Ham Radio Operators

kiessig@idi.UUCP (Rick Kiessig) (06/10/85)

From the Orange County Register, 5-29-85:

	"Statistics turned up by Dr. Samuel Milham Jr., an
	epidemiologist for Washington state, suggest that
	ham radio operators may be nearly twice as prone
	to leukemia as the rest of the population.

	Reporting in The Lancet, Milham presented the results
	of a survey of more than 1,900 amateur radio operators
	in Washington and California who died from 1971 to 1983.

	From dead certificates, he discovered that 24 of 1,691
	subjects had died from various types of leukemia.  The
	expected number of leukemia victims in a suitably
	matched control group would have been 12.6."

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