Assigned Share for Radiation as a Cause of Cancer: Review of Radioepidemiologic Tables Assigning Probabilities of Causation

摘要

The Oversight Committee on Radioepidemiologic Tables was established by the National Research Council to review the work of the Ad Hoc Working Group to Develop Radioepidemiological Tables. The Working Group developed a series of tables showing estimated probabilities that a person who has a cancer developed it as a result of a previous dose of radiation. This report reviews the Working Group's sources of data, assumptions, epidemiologic and biostatistical methods, and means of handling uncertainty as laid out in its draft report dated July 1984. The Oversight Committee makes 25 specific recommendations for improvement of the tables and also discusses the implications of their use for compensation decisions and their potential influence on standards for radiation protection.