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Probability of causation for cancers potentially induced by ionizing radiation
Author(s) -
Wagner Louis K.,
Brodsky Allen,
Jose Donald E.,
Rao Gopala,
Webster Edward W.
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
medical physics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.473
H-Index - 180
eISSN - 2473-4209
pISSN - 0094-2405
DOI - 10.1118/1.596349
Subject(s) - causation , ionizing radiation , nuclear weapon , political science , medicine , medical physics , law , environmental health , law and economics , physics , sociology , nuclear physics , irradiation
Prompted by increasing litigation claiming cancer induction from exposure to radiation from nuclear weapons tests, the United States Congress enacted an amendment to the Orphan Drug Act (Public Law 97‐414, January 4, 1983), through which the National Institutes of Health was directed to and did produce Probability of Causation (PC) Tables. This review defines PC and discusses the data, limitations, and uses of the concept.