II. BEIR-III

A. Cancer (Table V-4)
Lifetime Risk of Cancer Death

_. (deaths/10°/rad)
Single exposure to
10 rad

Relative

Continuous Exposure
to 1 rad/yr

Model

Absolute

Absolute

Relative

L-Q, LQ-L

77

226

67

182

L-L, L-L

167

50]

158

430

Q-L, Q-L

10

28

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B. Birth Defects--pages 166-169

(mean parental age = 30 years)

1 rem per generation (1 rem parental exposure) per 10° live
offspring ———~*5 to 75 birth defects, this is 0.0005
--0.0075%--First generation
Spontaneous rate is 10.7%, thus 1 rem will increase the rate
from 10.7% to 10.7005--10.7075%
e

0005 _=
“97
0075

0.7

_-

0.000047 == 0.0047%
sr

0.0007

=

-

0. 07%

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