caa a22 4500 477128920 CHVBK 20180405111658.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170330e19970501xx s 000 0 eng 10.1023/A:1018496919324 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1023/A:1018496919324 Occupational and environmental radiation and cancer [Elektronische Daten] [John Boice, Jay Lubin] Epidemiologic evidence on the relation between occupational and environmental radiation and cancer is reviewed. Studies of pioneering radiation workers, underground miners, and radium dial painters revealed excess cancer deaths and contributed to the setting of radiation protection standards and to theories of carcinogenesis. Occupational exposures today are generally much lower than in the past, thus any associated increases in cancer will be difficult to detect. Pooling investigations of these more recently exposed workers, however, has the potential to validate current estimates of risk used in radiation protection. New information on the effects of chronic radiation exposure also may come from studies in the former Soviet Union of Chernobyl clean-up workers and of workers at the Mayak nuclear facilities. Studies of environmental radiation exposures, other than radon, are largely inconclusive, due mainly to the difficulties in detecting the low risks associated with low dose exposures. Thyroid cancer, however, has been linked to environmental radiation from the Chernobyl accident and from nuclear weapons tests. Low-level radiation released during normal operations at nuclear plants has not been found to increase cancer rates in surrounding populations. Radon, a human carcinogen, is the most ubiquitous exposure to human populations; remediating high residential-radon levels is recommended, recognizing that the exposure can never be removed completely because it occurs naturally. Chapman and Hall, 1997 Cancer nationallicence environment nationallicence ionizing radiation nationallicence leukemia nationallicence occupation nationallicence radon nationallicence Boice John Epidemiology and Biostatistics Program, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, US National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, USA aut Lubin Jay Epidemiology and Biostatistics Program, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, US National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, USA aut Cancer Causes & Control Kluwer Academic Publishers 8/3(1997-05-01), 309-322 0957-5243 8:3<309 1997 8 10552 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1018496919324 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1018496919324 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Boice John Epidemiology and Biostatistics Program, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, US National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Lubin Jay Epidemiology and Biostatistics Program, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, US National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Cancer Causes & Control Kluwer Academic Publishers 8/3(1997-05-01), 309-322 0957-5243 8:3<309 1997 8 10552 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer