Proceedings of the Korean Nuclear Society Conference (한국원자력학회:학술대회논문집)
- 1996.11b
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- Pages.629-635
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- 1996
Analysis of Radiation-Induced Cancer Mortality for Korean Using the BEIR V Method
- Hwang, Won-Tae (Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute) ;
- Han, Moon-Hee (Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute) ;
- Kim, Eun-Han (Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute) ;
- Suh, Kyung-Suk (Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute) ;
- Gyuseong Cho (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
- Published : 1996.11.01
Abstract
The lifetime radiation-induced cancer mortality for Korean has been estimated for both single and continuous radiation exposure using the BEIR V method. In case of single exposure, a dominant cancer site for young and old ages was digestive and respiratory cancer, respectively. For Korean population, digestive cancer was the most dominant radiation-induced cancer site. In case of 1 mGy/yr continuous exposure from birth to death, the contribution of total radiation-induced cancer mortality was negligible as within 3% in comparison with total natural cancer mortality.
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