A computer code for Cohort Analysis of Increased Risks of Death (CAIRD). Technical report

Technical Report · Thu Jun 01 04:00:00 EDT 1978

OSTI ID:5511862

Cook, J R; Bunger, B M; Barrick, M K

The most serious health risk confronting individuals exposed to radiation is death from an induced cancer. Since cancers usually do no develop until many years after exposure, other causes of death may intervene and take the lives of those destined to die from cancer. This computer code has been developed to aid risk analysis by calculating the number of premature deaths and loss of years of life produced by a hypothetical population after exposure to a given risk situation. The code generates modified life tables and estimates the impact of increased risk through several numerical comparisons with the appropriate reference life tables. One of the code's frequent applications is in estimating the number of radiation induced deaths that would result from exposing an initial population of 100,000 individuals to an annual radiation dose. For each risk situation analyzed, the computer code generates a summary table which documents the input, data and contains the results of the comparisons with reference life tables.

• Research Organization: Office of Radiation Programs, Washington, DC (USA). Div. of Criteria and Standards
• OSTI ID: 5511862
• Report Number(s): PB-80-101124
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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ACCIDENTS
ADULTS
ANIMALS
CARCINOGENESIS
CHILDREN
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MAN
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MORTALITY
NEOPLASMS
PATHOGENESIS
POPULATIONS
PRIMATES
PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
RADIATIONS
RADIOINDUCTION
RISK ASSESSMENT
VERTEBRATES