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"Low Level Revision 1 1.2.2 1.2.2.1 |
Professor Emeritus Myron Pollycove,
MD, of Laboratory Medicine and Radiology, UCSF, reports (1995) that a recent report by the
International Association for Research on Cancer (IARC) (Cardis et al 1995): "...misrepresents dose-response data to report a ‘linear model’ result. The IARC report chooses to ignore data that shows lower risk, i.e., a risk decrement. "First, in this combined occupational exposure group it chooses to ignore the most accurate data, the Nuclear Shipyard Worker Study compared to the early weapons facility workers with their questionable dosimetry and confounding factors. Then, in a population of 15,825 total deaths, IARC reports on 119 leukemia deaths, excluding non-radiogenic leukemia. The data show that there are 60 deaths observed with 62.0 expected for doses of less than 1 cSv, and there are 59 deaths observed with 57.0 expected for doses greater than 1.0 cSv (applicable data extracted in Table 2). Clearly, there is no excess leukemia found in this data." |
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