Mortality of Veteran Participants in the CROSSROADS Nuclear Test (1996) / Chapter Skim
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Other Studies of the Human Health Effects of Radiation Exposure
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. Reports from individual veterans and advocacy groups brought to attention concerns about mortality and long-term morbidity believed to be caused by the radiation exposures received during nuclear weapons testing.
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About 13 percent of years of potential life lost before age 65 is attributed to cancer deaths (NCHS 1992~. In 1976, following notice of a patient who associated his acute myelocytic leukemia with his presence at an atmospheric nuclear test, the Centers for Disease Control mounted an epidemiological study of military personnel who had attended that test Shot SMOKY, a detonation of Operation PLUMBBOB-conducted at the Nevada test site in August 1957 (Caldwell et al.
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for leukemias in the control groups was 0.56 for the entire follow-up period and 0.34 for the time period 2 to 25 years postexposure. The results of this study of CROSSROADS participants and the earlier mentioned Five Series Study simultaneously under way should add more information about, and therefore a more stable understanding of, the association between nuclear test participant exposure and mortality.
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