title: Radiation dose dependences in the atomic bomb survivor cancer mortality data: a model-free visualization.
abstract: Chomentowski, M., Kellerer, A. M. and Pierce, D. A. Radiation Dose Dependences in the Atomic Bomb Survivor Cancer Mortality Data: A Model-Free Visualization. The standard approach to obtaining nominal risk coefficients for radiation-related cancer involves fitting linear or linear-quadratic dose-response functions. This is usually complemented by a more direct visualization where the data are subdivided into distinct dose categories and the effect level is quantified for each of these categories. Such model-free computations, however, can be quite dependent on the arbitrary choice of the cutpoints in dose. The method proposed here largely avoids this arbitrariness by choosing a dose category width-constant on a log scale-to obtain the desired degree of smoothing, and then superimposing results for all placements of the resulting log-dose grids. The method is applied to leukemia and solid cancer mortality of the A-bomb survivors.
authors.affiliation: Radiobiological Institute, University of Munich, Munich, Germany.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Chomentowski
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Kellerer
authors.forename: D A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Pierce
mesh_terms: D015331:Cohort Studies; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D009381:Neoplasms, Radiation-Induced / Q000401:mortality*; D009689:Nuclear Warfare; D011829:Radiation Dosage; D013534:Survival