Epidemiology data for low-linear energy transfer radiation

These have included survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, workers at nuclear reactors, and medical patients treated with X-rays.

Survivors of the atomic bomb explosions at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan have been the subjects of a Life Span Study (LSS), which has provided valuable epidemiological data.

[3] The BEIR VII Report[2] contains an extensive review of data sets from human populations, including nuclear reactor workers and patients who were treated with radiation.

Table 4 shows the results that are derived from Preston et al.[5] for a meta-analysis of breast cancer risks in eight populations, including the atomic-bomb survivors.

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Figure 1. From Preston et al.: [ 1 ] Solid cancer dose-response function average over gender for attained age 70 after exposure at age 30. The solid straight-line is the linear slope estimate; the points are dose -category-specific ERR estimates; the dashed curve is a smoothed estimate that is derived from the points; and the dotted curves indicate upper and lower one-stand-error bounds on the smoothed estimate.