Mortality Through 1990 Among White Male Workers at the Los Alamos National Laboratory
Autor: | Carol A. Cox-Devore, Laurie D. Wiggs, Emily R. Johnson, George L. Voelz |
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Rok vydání: | 1994 |
Předmět: |
Male
medicine.medical_specialty Neoplasms Radiation-Induced Epidemiology Health Toxicology and Mutagenesis Rate ratio Ionizing radiation Cohort Studies Occupational Exposure Radiation Ionizing Environmental health Humans Medicine Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Mortality Radiation Injuries Lung cancer Nuclear Warfare Cause of death business.industry Cancer Dose-Response Relationship Radiation medicine.disease Plutonium United States Cohort business Nuclear medicine Cohort study |
Zdroj: | Health Physics. 67:577-588 |
ISSN: | 0017-9078 |
Popis: | A cohort mortality study was conducted of 15,727 white men employed by the Los Alamos National Laboratory, a nuclear research and development facility. Some of the workers at this facility have been exposed to various forms of ionizing radiation and other potentially hazardous materials. These analyses focused on whole-body ionizing radiation exposures and internal depositions of plutonium. The results indicated that overall mortality among this cohort is quite low, even after nearly 30 y of follow-up. No cause of death was significantly elevated among plutonium-exposed workers when compared with their unexposed coworkers; however, a rate ratio for lung cancer of 1.78 (95% CI = 0.79-3.99) was observed. A case of osteogenic sarcoma, a type of cancer related to plutonium exposure in animal studies, was also observed. Dose-response relationships for whole-body dose from external ionizing radiation and tritium were observed for cancers of the brain/central nervous system, the esophagus, and Hodgkin's disease. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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