Il. BEIR-III
A. Cancer (Table V-4)
Lifetime Risk of Cancer Death
(deaths/10°/rad)
Model
Single exposure to
10 rad
Absolute
Relative
Continuous Exposure
to 1 rad/yr
Absolute
Relative
L-Q, LQ-L
77
226
67
182
L-L, L-C
167
501
158
430
QL, QL
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 108 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%
. 0005
“9.7
0.000047 = 0.0047%
0075
10.7
0.0007 .=
0.07%