Lung Cancer Risk due to Exposure to Incorporated Plutonium

An epidemiological study has been carried out among 1,479 male workers who started working at the "Mayak" Production Association in 1948-1958 and were exposed to external γ radiation and plutonium aerosols. Lung cancer mortality for the follow-up period 1948-1993 has been analyzed. No stat...

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Published in:Radiation research 1998-04, Vol.149 (4), p.366-371
Main Authors: Koshurnikova, N. A., Bolotnikova, M. G., Ilyin, L. A., Keirim-Markus, I. B., Menshikh, Z. S., Okatenko, P. V., Romanov, S. A., Tsvetkov, V. I., Shilnikova, N. S.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Aerosols
Age Factors
Aged
Alpha Particles
Body burden
Dosage
Dose response relationship
Dose-Response Relationship, Radiation
Gamma Rays
Humans
Life tables
Lung neoplasms
Lung Neoplasms - etiology
Lung Neoplasms - mortality
Lungs
Male
Middle Aged
Mortality
Neoplasms, Radiation-Induced
Occupational Exposure
Plutonium
Radiation dosage
Radiation dose response relationship
Registries
Risk
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Summary:An epidemiological study has been carried out among 1,479 male workers who started working at the "Mayak" Production Association in 1948-1958 and were exposed to external γ radiation and plutonium aerosols. Lung cancer mortality for the follow-up period 1948-1993 has been analyzed. No statistically significant association of lung cancer mortality and external γ-ray dose has been revealed in the range of accumulated doses of 0.2-5.5 Gy. Association of lung cancer mortality and the dose of α-particle radiation to the lung is statistically significant. In the dose range below 30 Sv, this association can be described in terms of a linear nonthreshold function. Lifetime lung cancer risk in the dose range below 30 Sv is $1.21\times 10^{-2}\ {\rm Sv}^{-1}$.
ISSN:0033-7587
1938-5404
DOI:10.2307/3579699