The research should provide the means to estimate the attributable case load for leukaemia, rectum cancer, lung cancer and “all” cancer. Work cohorts in this study were dental, medical, industrial and nuclear.
Evidence from:
WN Sont et al. American Journal of Epidemiology Feb (2001) Vol. 153 #4 p. 309
In practice the results were of doubtful statistical significance.
The approach to risk adopted in radiation regulation and medicine seems far removed from an approach based on the balance of probabilities.
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