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A-bomb survivors: factors that may lead to a re-assessment of the radiation hazard

Author(s) -

Alice Stewart,

G W Kneale

Publication year - 2000

Publication title -

international journal of epidemiology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.406

H-Index - 208

eISSN - 1464-3685

pISSN - 0300-5771

DOI - 10.1093/ije/29.4.708

Subject(s) - hazard , lead (geology) , environmental health , medicine , radiation exposure , nuclear medicine , biology , ecology , paleontology

The study cohort of the survivors of the A-bombs in Japan, used as the basis of the internationally accepted estimates of cancer radiation risk, was collected more than 5 years after the bombing and did not include those who died of bomb-related injuries before that date. This paper tests whether the people who survived, in spite of bomb-related injuries, are homogeneous in respect of variation of cancer risk with age with survivors without such injuries.

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