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Health Risks of Ionizing Radiation: - Clark University

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92 <strong>Radiation</strong> Workers<br />

<br />

<br />

Not available No evidence <strong>of</strong> risk<br />

Case-control study <strong>of</strong> melanoma<br />

incidence in LANL workers<br />

1969-1978<br />

Acquavella et al.<br />

1983<br />

Not available Elevated SMRs for cancers <strong>of</strong> the lung, prostate, CNS,<br />

and kidney.<br />

Cohort study <strong>of</strong> mortality in<br />

8,116 Y-12 workers 1947-1990<br />

Loomis and Wolf<br />

1996<br />

Data suggest that younger (45)<br />

workers may have increased sensitivity to low level<br />

exposure and that the induced cancers have long latent<br />

periods<br />

Mean external dose <strong>of</strong><br />

11 mSv among<br />

monitored deceased<br />

workers<br />

Analysis <strong>of</strong> cancer mortality in<br />

24,939 Hanford workers 1944-<br />

1972<br />

Mancuso et al.<br />

1977<br />

Significant association between dose and bladder<br />

cancer incidence with a 20-year lag. Overall ERR for<br />

cancer incidence with a 10-yr lag –0.9/Sv (

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