A review of the draft report of the NCI-CDC working group to revise the 1985 radioepidemiological tables /
| Imprint: | Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, ©2000. |
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| Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 51 pages). |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Compass series Compass series (Washington, D.C.) |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11194450 |
| Summary: | The National Research Council was asked by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to review the draft report of the National Cancer Institute (NCI)-CDC's working group charged with revising the 1985 radioepidemiological tables. To this end, a subcommittee was formed consisting of members of the Council's Committee on an Assessment of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Radiation Programs and other experts. The original tables were mandated under Public Law 97-414 (the "Orphan Drug Act") and were intended to provide a means of estimating the probability that a person who developed any of a series of radiation-related cancers, developed the cancer as a result of a specific radiation dose received before the onset of the cancer. The mandate included a provision for periodic updating of the tables. The motivation for the current revision reflects the availability of new data, especially on cancer incidence, and new methods of analysis, and the need for a more thorough treatment of uncertainty in the estimates than was attempted in the original tables. |
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| Item Description: | "This report was prepared under the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention contract 200-95-0965 between the National Academy of Sciences and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention"--Title page verso. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 51 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 46-48). |
| ISBN: | 0309564891 9780309564892 0309072506 0309076978 9780309076975 |