Program of the 1996 Annual Meeting, Implications of New Data on Radiation Cancer Risk
April 3-4, 1996
Overview
Radiation Epidemiology: Past and Present
John D. Boice, Jr., National Cancer Institute
Atomic-Bomb Survivors
Warren K. Sinclair, Chair
Mortality Among Atomic-Bomb Survivors, 1950-1990
Dale L. Preston, Radiation Effects Research Foundation
Cancer Incidence Among Japanese Atomic-Bomb Survivors
Kiyohiko Mabuchi, Radiation Effects Research Foundation
Studies of Patients Exposed to Medical Radiation
John D. Boice, Jr., Chair
Overview
Geoffrey R. Howe, Columbia University
Cancer Risk Following Radioactive Iodine Exposures in Medicine
Elaine Ron, National Cancer Institute
Second Cancers Following Radiotherapy for Cancer
Rochelle E. Curtis, National Cancer Institute
Occupational Exposure
Dale L. Preston, Chair
Combined Analyses of Studies of Nuclear Workers
Ethel S. Gilbert, Battelle, Pacific Northwest Laboratory
The Risk of Cancer Among Nuclear Workers at the “Mayak” Production Association: Preliminary Results of an Epidemiological Study
Nina Koshurnikova & Natalia Shilnikova, Ministry of Health and Medical Industry, Russia
Studies of Leukemia and Thyroid Disease Among Chernobyl Clean-Up Workers from the Baltics
Peter I. Inskip, Texas A&M University
Environmental Exposure
Fred A. Mettler, Jr., Chair
Thyroid Cancer Around Chernobyl
Valerie Beral, University of Oxford
Radon
Ethel S. Gilbert, Chair
Epidemiologic Studies of Underground Miners: New Information from an Old Source
Jonathan M. Samet, Johns Hopkins University
Studies of Indoor Radon and Lung Cancer Risk
Jay H. Lubin, National Cancer Institute
Twentieth Lauriston S. Taylor Lecture on Radiation Protection and Measurements
Introduction of the Lecturer, James F. Crow
70 Years of Radiation Genetics: Fruit Flies, Mice and Humans, Seymour Abrahamson
Radiation Biology
Charles E. Land, Chair
Molecular Mechanisms of Carcinogenesis
Eric J. Hall, Columbia University
Inherited Susceptibility and Radiation Exposure
John B. Little, Harvard University
Does Radiation Cause Molecular Signatures?
William P. Bennett, National Cancer Institute
Summary
John B. Little, Chair
Implications for Radiation Protection
Warren K. Sinclair, NCRP
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