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Appendix C: Issues Raised by the Institute for Energy and Environment Research (IEER)
Pages 330-331

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... Nevertheless the BEIR VII tween radiation and cancer. Because of the current practice committee considered potentially informative epidemiologic of minimizing radiation exposure to pregnant women, the data that relate to risks from internal radiation as part of its committee considers it unlikely that this issue will be able to brief to review risks at low doses of low-LET (linear energy be addressed by future epidemiologic studies.
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... posure and sex, except of course for sex-specific studies. The committee notes that imprecision in the estimation of The committee recommends that future studies of popuradiation exposure will tend toward an underestimation of lations exposed to ionizing radiation include not only inforany true association between radiation and health effects.
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