The Million Person Study of Low-Dose Radiation Health Effects (Hardcover, 1)

1. Introduction to the U.S. Million Person Study of health effects from low-level exposure to radiation?2. Radiation in the workplace ? an opportunity for substantial epidemiological evidence?3. The Million Person Study, whence it came and why?4. The Million Person Study relevance to space exploration and Mars?5. Historical perspective on the Department of Energy mortality studies: focus on the collection and storage of individual worker data?6. 50 Years of the Radiation Exposure Information and Reporting System and importance to the Million Person Study?7. Evaluation of statistical modeling approaches for epidemiologic studies of low-dose radiation health effects?8. Obtaining vital status and cause of death on a million persons?9. Validating the use of census data on education as a measure of socioeconomic status?10. Cohort profile - MSKCC radiation workers: a pilot sub-cohort of a multicenter medical radiation worker component of the Million Person Study of low-dose radiation health effects?11. Dosimetry and uncertainty approaches for the million-worker study of radiation workers and veterans: overview of the recommendations in NCRP Report No. 178?12. Dosimetry associated with veterans who participated in nuclear weapons testing?13. Dosimetry for the study of medical radiation workers with a focus on the mean absorbed dose to the lung, brain and other organs?14. MPS dose reconstruction for internal emitters: some site-specific issues and approaches?15. Potential improvements in brain dose estimates for internal emitters?16. Mortality from leukemia, cancer and heart disease among U.S. nuclear power plant workers, 1957-2011?17. Mortality among U.S. military participants at eight aboveground nuclear weapons test series?18. Updated mortality analysis of the Mallinckrodt uranium processing workers, 1942-2012?19. Mortality among workers at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1943-2017?20. Mortality among Tennessee Eastman Corporation (TEC) uranium processing workers?21. Mortality among medical radiation workers in the United States, 1965-2016.?22. Radium dial workers: back to the future?23. Sex-specific lung cancer risk among radiation workers in the Million Person Study and among TB-fluoroscopy patients?24. Asbestos exposure and mesothelioma mortality among atomic veterans?25. Mesothelioma mortality within two radiation monitored occupational cohorts?26. ?A million persons, a million dreams: a vision for a National Center for Radiation Epidemiology and Biology