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BEIR V
(1990) states (p 184) in Risk of Cancer-All Sites, Annex 4A, The Life Span Study of
A-Bomb Survivors that the dose response for non-cancer deaths has a U
shaped behavior. The lower mortality rates in the moderately exposed individuals result
from lower rates of death from a variety of causes. Professor Emeritus Dr. Sohei Kondo reports (Kondo 1993, Section 3.1) In 7782 deaths that occurred during 1970-76 among the bomb survivors in Nagasaki the age-specific rates of death from all causes (observed deaths) in people over 60 years of age were significantly lower than those for people without the health handbook (expected deaths) presumed to be unexposed. Dr. Sadao Hattori, Vice President and Director of Research at CRIEPI, states (1994, 1996) that "The exposed groups are showing longer lives through the comparison of the death rate of each age between exposed group and non-exposed group." Professor Emeritus Myron Pollycove, MD, of Laboratory Medicine and Radiology, UCSF, also reports (1994) that: "The decreased mortality risk reported by the US-Japan Radiation Effects Research Foundation (RERF) study of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Shimizu 1992) is consistent with the recent article on Nagasaki survivors from Nagasaki University and the Atomic Energy Research Institute, Kinki University, Japan. Mine et al. report (1990) upon the ‘apparently beneficial effect of low to intermediate doses of A-bomb radiation on human lifespan’. |
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