Exposure of the American people to Iodine-131 from Nevada nuclear-bomb tests : review of the National Cancer Institute report and public health implications / Committee on Thyroid Screening Related to I-131 Exposure, Board on Health Care Services, Institute of Medicine, and Committee on Exposure of the American People to I-131 from the Nevada Atomic Bomb Tests, Board on Radiation Effects Research, Commission on Life Sciences, National Research Council.
Material type:
- text
- computer
- online resource
- 0585047294
- 9780585047294
- 9780309061759
- 030906175X
- Ionizing radiation -- Dosage
- Nevada National Security Site (Nev.)
- Iodine -- Isotopes -- Toxicology -- United States
- Nuclear weapons testing victims -- Health risk assessment -- United States
- Thyroid gland -- Cancer -- United States -- Epidemiology
- Radiation carcinogenesis -- United States
- Radiation Dosage -- United States
- Environmental Exposure -- adverse effects -- United States
- Public Health -- United States
- Public Policy -- United States
- Radiation Effects -- United States
- Radiation, Ionizing -- United States
- MEDICAL -- Infectious Diseases
- HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- Contagious
- Iodine -- Isotopes -- Toxicology
- Ionizing radiation -- Dosage
- Radiation carcinogenesis
- Thyroid gland -- Cancer -- Epidemiology
- Nevada -- Nevada National Security Site
- United States
- 362.1/969897/00973 21
- RA569 .E96 1999eb
- 1999 K-237
- WN 665
"Support for this project was provided by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (Contract Number NO1-OD-4-2139, TO35)"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references.
Print version record.
1. Introduction -- 2. Review of the NCI Radiation Dose Reconstruction -- 3. Health Risks of I-131 Exposure -- 4. Implications for Clinical Practice and Public Health Policy -- 5. Communicating with the Public about Exposure to I-131 -- 6. Research Needs -- App. A. Study Activities -- App. B. Copy of the Memorandum from Dr. Charles Land to Dr. Richard Klausner -- App. C. Calculation of Collective Thyroid Dose to the U.S. Population from the Release of [superscript 131]I from the Nuclear Weapons Tests in Nevada -- App. D. Thyroid Cancer in Idaho, 1970-1996 -- App. E. Applicable Radiation Exposure Standards and Guides: Past and Present -- App. F. Screening for Thyroid Cancer: Background Paper.
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