Radiation epidemiology: Past and present
- International Epidemiology Institute, Rockville, MD (United States)
Major advancements in radiation epidemiology have occurred during the last several years in studies of atomic bomb survivors, patients given medical radiation, and radiation workers, including underground miners. Risks associated with the Chernobyl accident, indoor radon and childhood exposure to I-131 have yet to be elucidated. Situations in the former Soviet Union around Chelyabinsk, a nuclear installation in the southern Urals, and in the Altai, which received radioactive fallout from weapons testing at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan, have the potential to provide information on the effects of chronic radiation exposure. Since Roentgen`s discovery of x-rays just 100 years ago, a tremendous amount of knowledge has been accumulated about human health effects following irradiation. The 1994 UNSCEAR report contains the latest compilation and synthesis of radiation epidemiology. This overview will cover epidemiology from a radiation perspective. The different types of study methodologies will be described, followed by a kaleidoscope coverage of past and present studies; ending with some remaining questions in radiation epidemiology. This should set the stage for future chapters, and stimulate thinking about implications of the new data on radiation cancer risks.
- Research Organization:
- National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements, Bethesda, MD (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 526015
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-960405-; TRN: 98:008241
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 32. annual meeting of the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements, Arlington, VA (United States), 3-4 Apr 1996; Other Information: PBD: 1 Mar 1997; Related Information: Is Part Of Implications of new data on radiation cancer risk. Proceedings No. 18; Boice, J.D. Jr. [ed.]; PB: 320 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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