TABLE 5-1: OCCURRENCE OF RADIATION INDUCED
SOMATIC CANCER EFFECTS ON HUMANS

Radiation Induced

Critical
Organ

Whole Body

'

Incidence of Cancer*

— -

60 = 165

Bone

25

Lung

25

-

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Cases/(Million Persons)(Rem)

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*Cancer Cases induced by a population dose of one million
person-rems. <A population dose of one million person-rems
does not necessarily mean an equal dose to each individual
in the exposed population, but is, rather, the sum of individual

doses over the exposed population.

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