Soa

Subject ot study
Tt

Patients Gmost between apes
10-400 treated with v-rays

Fallow-up

Dose

Naat

borm ot

time (yr)

(Roo rads}

persons!

vdncer

Ob causes

Observed
in exposed
group?

bxpected
it not
evpared®
at

bO-40

100) 2000

Lu

Thyroid

\

bt). 38

bS00- 2000

alt

Thyroid

o

tor benign lesions in neck,
mainly tor tuberculous adenitis

(treated between | 20-50)

Htantord et al. 1462 (158)
12)

Patients. ages 20-70) treated
with x-rays to thy coud tor
henign disorders DeLawter

und Winship. 1462 (150)
13. Hyperthyroid patients treated with

3.2]

7-ES rads to bone

treated 1946-64, followup

Marrow (4 m4
PM yu

through June 1967) Saenger
et al, 196% (250)

18.370

Leukemia

1?

114

Leukemia

la

Il 4

(114.000
person yr
al Fish)

Comparison group treated by surgery

1.734
(} | 4 O08

and not given hy Saenger eb al . 1968
(250)

person yr
al risk

{40

Hyperthyront pacients, ages 20-00
treated with s-rays (treated
[946-83 follow-up Lusso)
Sheline etal

1S)

16

Patients treated with s-rass fo
spine tor ankylosing sponds itis
(treated PYIS-S84) totlaw-ap ta
Juan 1963) Court Brown and
Doll, 1968 (242)
Patients treated with x-rays tor

19ox (243)

b&

Hutchison,

American radiologists (died | U4s-

1964)

Is?

Notgiven

thy ron nodules

Lewin, 1970 (244)

Ameriun radiologists

Warren and

Lombard. 1466 (245)

S.is

4-s
(313

<ldro or

S80 S800 to spinal
HLM PPro’
of spinal ctose
toother sensitive
wheds
O-T SOO as
to bone

marr.

Ttireviageh

1964
Phrourh

4 00>
(box od
ian vr
al risk}
a7 tak

Ly mphatte

S30

Leukemia

deaths

person ye)

S.a4)

buen

American radiologists. Seltser

435-45

Leukemia
Aplaste anemia
Cancer ol feavils
irrudiated siles
taller ovr)
Leukemta

(S714

malienaney

|

is
fom
107

4

A]

f

3

13

ya]

Mulliple myeloma

5

10

\plastic anemia

5

a

Leukemia

18-44

4
7

86

pasg-s4
PUSS-HQ)

6
7

1 26
2s

person yr) Leukemia
Other cancer

:
0

14
73

(dR X95

us

Ages 39-49

Total deaths

TY

614

Apes 30-04
Leukemia
Other cancer

4
s4

lt
a2?

Total deaths

3349

Ages 65-74
Leukemia
Other cancer

9
72

Total deaths

Radiumdial painters und others
who ingested radium aad
thorium Fvans, 167 C251)
Cranium miners exposed to radon
gus and decay products, Lollowup 1950-63 Wagoner et al
1965 (234)

nO)
Ip
200

3.82)

and Sartwell, [YoS (246)

20)

~

be4gs-44

.

19°

Thy reid (probable)
Muttiple benmn

Evol (178)

cancer ot the cervix
17

S.48

More Chan 40

420

B4ls

43%

71

§

47
48

295

Bone

So stgntticant clinical sins

Lung

of malignancies tor body
burdens “20 5 uO)" Ra
7
5,7
2?

“This refers to the number of individuals at cesk unless otherwise specified
The information needed to determine the number of cases is obtained by either toflowing a desinated study population
oc by working back from a review of ull death certiticates in a defined geowraphical area
“Yhe numbers tn this column ure based on avaiable statistical dada bor ume x posed populations
“The term person-rads pertuins to the dose imparted tog population ands equal to the surat the doses incurred
hy the individuals inthe population
*This figure is bused on a systematic sampling of the population rather Chang review of all the records
'The term Person years at sks the sum of the number of veursin which the disease Gould develop in cach member of the group

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