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
-
j
Cases/(Million Persons)(Rem)
wee ee eee
*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.