title: Lung cancer risk due to exposure to incorporated plutonium.
abstract: An epidemiological study has been carried out among 1,479 male workers who started working at the "Mayak" Production Association in 1948-1958 and were exposed to external gamma radiation and plutonium aerosols. Lung cancer mortality for the follow-up period 1948-1993 has been analyzed. No statistically significant association of lung cancer mortality and external gamma-ray dose has been revealed in the range of accumulated doses of 0.2-5.5 Gy. Association of lung cancer mortality and the dose of alpha-particle radiation to the lung is statistically significant. In the dose range below 30 Sv, this association can be described in terms of a linear nonthreshold function. Lifetime lung cancer risk in the dose range below 30 Sv is 1.21 x 10(-2)Sv(-1).
authors.affiliation: Branch No. 1 of the State Scientific Center Biophysics Institute, Ozyorsk, Chelyabinsk region, Russia.
authors.forename: N A
authors.initials: NA
authors.lastname: Koshurnikova
authors.forename: M G
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Bolotnikova
authors.forename: L A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Ilyin
authors.forename: I B
authors.initials: IB
authors.lastname: Keirim-Markus
authors.forename: Z S
authors.initials: ZS
authors.lastname: Menshikh
authors.forename: P V
authors.initials: PV
authors.lastname: Okatenko
authors.forename: S A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Romanov
authors.forename: V I
authors.initials: VI
authors.lastname: Tsvetkov
authors.forename: N S
authors.initials: NS
authors.lastname: Shilnikova
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000336:Aerosols; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000512:Alpha Particles; D004307:Dose-Response Relationship, Radiation; D005720:Gamma Rays; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000209:etiology* / Q000401:mortality*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009381:Neoplasms, Radiation-Induced; D016273:Occupational Exposure; D011005:Plutonium; D012042:Registries; D012306:Risk
chemical_list: D000336:Aerosols; D011005:Plutonium