-4~ Table 1 Calculation of the excess annual number of cancer deaths for individuals exposed from 20 to 65 years of aye ABSOLUTE RISK MODEL RELATIVE RISK MODEL Exposure Conditions Excess Deaths Leukemia 10° veople: 5 ren/yr. 81 Due to: Excess Deaths Due to All Other Cancer (a) 300 (b) 336 Leukenia 181 All Other Cancer (a) 601 (b) 146 (a) (>) (Platea, ion = interval following latest period @uring «hich the risk remains estimated). Source: UAS-BEIR Report, co-170. cr The risk estimates in Table l incorporate the assumpfion tha the million seozle have an age and sex distribution identica te NN ‘ to that of individuals 20 years and older in the U.S. (1967 stazistics). population These ficures do not represent a 20 yeer s chance of eventually dving of radiation induced ming exposure at the 5 rem/year limit). This chance can, however, be calculated by using the overall rete for individuals over 20 years of age. » in 1972 vas 1590 deaths ver 100,000 2, 2 this vate is divided inte the vison aim vaple Ll, This nopulattion. frecuency of cancer the bhance of a warlker, exposed at