Cancer risk to naval divers: response.(Correspondence) From: Environmental Health Perspectives | Date: September 1, 2003| Author: Bar-Chana, Micha; Berman, Tamar; Friedman, Lee S.; Levy, Or; Lipshitz, Irene; Peretz, Tamar; Richter, Elihu D.; Sadeh, Maya; Tamir, Yuval; Westin, Jerome B. | COPYRIGHT 2003 National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

We would like to address the epidemiologic implications of Amitai et al.'s comments on the validity of our estimates of exposure, dermal contact and absorption, internal doses, and permeability coefficients that we reported in our article published in the April 2003 issue of EHP(Richter et al. 2003)

We now know that excessive skin contact occurred in the 1950s and 1960s when divers used defective and torn skin suits and applied skin greases [Governmental Commission of In...