A. ... .. - BEIR-I 1. Cancer (Tables 3-3 and 3-4) Derived Cancer deaths/106 person rem ../” i‘?.+ I ;., !-., Cancer deaths/year in U.S. from 0.1 rem/year (pop= 197,863,000) Absolute Relative Absolute Relative 516 738 26 37 30 year elevated risk 1210 2436 61 123 lifetime elevated risk 1485 8340 75 421 Leukemia Other Cancers Range 1726-2001 3174-9078 87-101 160-458 From the above the minimium estimate of cancer risk would be given by a risk coefficient of 87/106 person rem and the maximum by 458/106 person rem. Thus, these two risk coefficients were used to define a range of es-timated cancer deaths. ~- 2. Gf5netic Effects (from Page 1 & 2 BEIR-1) ‘1 ~ ‘.: Basecl on specific ,—- defects ., reproduc~l%e generation would cause in the ,~-~~~~~~o—year ‘a ‘\i ( first generation 100-1800 cases of dominant diseases and defects per year (3.6 million births/year) or 5 times this amount at equilibrium. of 0.05% incidence equilibrium. The 1800 cases represent an increase per year first generation and 0.25% at