Leukemia in Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Survivors

Autor:	Mitsuru Yamasaki, Lowell A. Woodbury, Tarunendu Ghose, A. Bertrand Brill, Robert Heyssel, Edwin T. Nishimura, Takashi Hoshino
Rok vydání:	1960
Předmět:	education.field_of_study business.industry Incidence (epidemiology) Immunology Population Physiology Cell Biology Hematology medicine.disease Biochemistry Leukemia medicine Linear relation Nuclear medicine business education
Zdroj:	Blood. 15:313-331
ISSN:	1528-0020 0006-4971
Popis:	The incidence of leukemia is higher among those closely exposed than among those more remote from the hypocenter. This increase was first manifest approximately three years following exposure. It apparently reached its peak between the years 1950 and 1952. Thereafter, the incidence has been diminishing, but 13 years after exposure it is still higher than would be expected in the general population. The type of leukemia most increased in incidence is the chronic granulocytic variety. No apparent difference in the natural history of the specific types of leukemia in exposed and nonexposed Japanese has been observed. Preliminary analyses of the data show a linear relation between dose of radiation and incidence of leukemia above 50 to 100 rad. Below this dose, the shape of the curve is not certain.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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