Health Risks of Ionizing Radiation: - Clark University

(RERF), 43
Radiation Exposure Compensation Act
(RECA), 103
Radiation therapy, 182
Radiation workers, 70-96
cancer mortality, 194
and childhood leukemia, 120
Radiography, 176
Radioiodine. See Iodine-131
Radiologists, 19. See also Occupational
exposure
and leukemia, 177
occupational exposure to radiation, 31
studies about risks, 33-35
Radiotherapy, 20
for cancer, 28
for childhood cancer, 29
for non-cancer disease, 24-28
parental exposure and childhood cancer,
30-31
studies, 41-42
Radium, 2
Radon, 13, 15-17
and childhood cancer, 16
and leukemia, 119
and lung cancer, 16-17, 108, 169
and miners, 16, 104, 107, 110-12
and myeloid leukemia, 16
residential studies, 108-9
and smoking, 105
Rajasthan Atomic Power Station, 153, 155
Rectal cancer, 28
Reindeer, 64
Renal cancer, 114
RERF (Radiation Effects Research
Foundation), 43
Respiratory system
and atomic bomb survivors, 49
and cancer among flight personnel, 114
and Chernobyl, 133
diseases among Navajo miners, 106
and mine workers, 105
Retinoblastoma, 29, 30
Ringworm, 27
Risk assessment, 72-73
Risk terminology, 9-10
Rocketdyne, 77-78
and age at exposure cancer risks, 89
and lung cancer, 88
Index 251
and multiple myeloma, 88
Rocky Flats, 78
and brain cancer, 88
and cancer, 147
and cancer in nearby communities, 154
and contamination, 154
and lung cancer, 88
Rosyth nuclear submarine base, 151
Royal Ordnance Factory, 150
Russian National Medical and Dosimetric
Registry (RNDMR), 132
Salivary gland, 79
San Onofre plant, 147
Savannah River Site, 79, 87-88
Scandinavia, 63
Scoliosis, 169
Seascale, 117-18, 122, 193
and childhood cancer, 149
Sellafield, 82-83, 117
and brain cancer, 88
and childhood cancer, 149
and kidney cancer, 86
and multiple myeloma, 88
and pleural cancer, 88
workers’ children, 120-21
Semipalatinsk Test Site, 59-60
and DNA damage in children, 121
fallout, 183
and germline mutations, 137
and leukemia, 178
studies, 66
Shiprock uranium mining area, 148, 155
Skin cancer
and atomic bomb survivors, 49
and flight personnel, 114, 115
Slovak Republic, 152, 153
Small intestine cancer, 26
Smoking, 13, 52, 97, 98, 105, 106
Solid cancer. See also Tumors, solid
and atomic bomb survivors, 45-46, 48-49,
52-53, 168
and Chernobyl, 132
and communities near nuclear power
plants, 152
and Mayak nuclear weapons production
complex, 153
and pooled data, 85, 86, 88
and preconception exposures, 120-21, 126-