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... . An important iincling of the BEIR Vl committee relevant to some of the RECA populations identified as uranium miners, uranium millers, and ore transporters is that the excess relative risk of radiogenic lung cancer decreases with increasing age and time since exposure.
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... The excess risk of thyroid cancer in exposed children declined by a factor of 2 for each 5-year age-at-exposure group under the age of ~ 5 years (Ron et al., 1995~. This suggests that excess relative risks to the surviving RECA populations (identified as downwinders and onsite nuclear-test participants)
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... Uncertainties in individual dose estimates and about the influence of iodine deficiency on the induction of radiogenic thyroid! cancer are among the factors that currently preclude reliable risk estimates for thyroid cancer in these populations (Tvanov et al., 20031.
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