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Health Risks of Ionizing Radiation: - Clark University

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94 <strong>Radiation</strong> Workers<br />

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<br />

Significant associations between external dose and lung<br />

cancer, blood/lymph cancers, and all cancers<br />

70% <strong>of</strong> external<br />

doses 2nCi had an<br />

elevated risk <strong>of</strong> blood and lymph cancer mortality 10<br />

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

5,413 Rocky Flats workers 1952-1979<br />

Wilkinson et al<br />

1987<br />

Estimated ERR ~5/Sv for lung cancer and for all cancer<br />

with 20-year lag time 11<br />

Mean external dose<br />

17.3 mSv<br />

Cohort study <strong>of</strong> mortality in 8,318<br />

ORNL workers 1943-1984<br />

Wing et al.<br />

1991

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