Reply to Lung Cancer Risk from Rn in Chinese Study

Authors

Werner Hofmann, University of Salzburg, Hellbrunnerstrasse 34 A-5020 Salzburg, Austria
Robert Katz, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Zhang Chunxiang, Zhongshan University, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China

Date of this Version

February 1988

Comments

Published in Health Physics Vol. 54, No. 2 (February), pp. 221-227, 1988. Copyright © 1988 Health Physics Society; published by Pergamon Journals Ltd. Used by permission.

Abstract

We are writing in response to comments by V. A. Archer (Archer 1987) on our study of lung cancer incidence in two Chinese areas, designated as the high background and the control area (Hofmann et al. 1986). In his comments, he asserts that the epidemiological data suffer from two serious defects.