05012nam 2200649Ia 450 991045610360332120200520144314.01-280-18565-197866101856580-309-56939-7(CKB)110986584752874(EBL)3377365(SSID)ssj0000155792(PQKBManifestationID)11158468(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000155792(PQKBWorkID)10122709(PQKB)10674765(MiAaPQ)EBC3377365(Au-PeEL)EBL3377365(CaPaEBR)ebr10071392(OCoLC)923270096(EXLCZ)9911098658475287420000814d2000 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrThe five series study[electronic resource] mortality of military participants in U.S. nuclear weapons tests : medical follow-up agency, Institute of Medicine /by Susan Thaul ... [et al.] ; with oversight from the Committee to Study the Mortality of Military Personnel Present at Atmospheric Tests of Nuclear WeaponsWashington, D.C. National Academy Press20001 online resource (239 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-309-06781-2 ""The Five Series Study""; ""Copyright""; ""REVIEWERS""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Glossary""; ""Contents""; ""Summary""; ""METHODS""; ""FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION""; ""1 Study Rationale and Overview ""; ""RATIONALE""; ""BACKGROUND""; ""OVERVIEW""; ""2 Other Studies of Radiation Exposure of Military Personnel ""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""MILITARY POPULATIONS""; ""3 An Overview of the U.S. Nuclear Weapons Testing Program ""; ""GREENHOUSE""; ""UPSHOT-KNOTHOLE""; ""CASTLE""; ""REDWING""; ""PLUMB BOB""; ""ESTIMATES OF EXTERNAL DOSES""; ""4 Data Sources """"COHORT IDENTIFICATION""""Nuclear Test Personnel Review Program""; ""National Archives and Military Collections""; ""CHARACTERISTICS OF COHORT MEMBERS, INCLUDING DATE OF BIRTH AND VITAL STATUS""; ""Beneficiary Identification and Records Locator Subsystem""; ""VA Master Index""; ""Military Personnel Folder""; ""CAUSE OF DEATH""; ""Veteran's Claim Folder""; ""National Death Index""; ""POPULATION MORTALITY RATES FOR COMPARISON""; ""5 The Participant Cohort ""; ""RELATIONSHIP OF PARTICIPANT ROSTERS USED IN THE 1985 PUBLICATION AND THIS REPORT""""PARTICIPATION IN SERIES OTHER THAN THE SELECTION SERIES""""6 The Referent Cohort ""; ""7 Exposure Definition and Measurement ""; ""DNA-PROVIDED DOSE ESTIMATES""; ""Individual Doses""; ""Alternative Uses of Dose Data""; ""POTENTIAL SURROGATE MEASURES OF DOSE""; ""DECISIONS FOR THE ANALYSES IN THIS REPORT""; ""FUTURE OPTIONS FOR USE OF DOSIMETRY""; ""8 Mortality Ascertainment ""; ""FACT-OF-DEATH ASCERTAINMENT""; ""FACT-OF-DEATH VALIDATION""; ""DATE OF DEATH""; ""CAUSE-OF-DEATH ACQUISITION""; ""CAUSE-OF-DEATH VALIDATION""; ""9 Analysis Structure ""; ""OVERVIEW""; ""AVAILABLE DATA""""ANALYSIS""""Variables""; ""Type of Analysis""; ""Diagnosis Groups""; ""10 Description of Cohort Characteristics ""; ""11 Findings ""; ""TESTS OF PREDETERMINED PRINCIPAL ENDPOINTS""; ""DESCRIPTIVE ANALYSES OF PREDETERMINED ADDITIONAL MORTALITY ENDPOINTS""; ""INVESTIGATING LEUKEMIA RISK BY LAND AND SEA SERIES PARTICIPATION""; ""INVESTIGATING LEUKEMIA RISK BY TIME SINCE FIRST PARTICIPATION AND AGE AT FIRST PARTICIPATION""; ""12 Discussion ""; ""LIMITATIONS""; ""Fact-of-Death and Cause-of-Death Ascertainment""; ""Statistical Power""; ""Other Possible Confounding Factors""""Military Service Characteristics""""Other Lifetime Radiation Exposure""; ""Contributing and Associated Causes of Death""; ""Inadequate Dosimetry""; ""DISCUSSION""; ""Leukemia""; ""Thyroid Cancer""; ""Lung Cancer""; ""Nasal Cancer""; ""Prostate Cancer""; ""CONCLUDING COMMENTS""; ""References""; ""APPENDIX A A Review of the Dosimetry Data Available in the Nuclear Test Personnel Review Program""; ""APPENDIX B National Association of Atomic Veterans Medical Survey ""; ""APPENDIX C Epidemiology Primer ""; ""CHOICE OF COMPARISON GROUP""; ""FINE TUNING OF EXPOSED GROUP""; ""CONFOUNDERS""""DATA COLLECTION""Nuclear weapons testing victimsHealth aspectsSoldiersMortalityNuclear weaponsTestingHealth aspectsRadiation carcinogenesisElectronic books.Nuclear weapons testing victimsHealth aspects.SoldiersMortality.Nuclear weaponsTestingHealth aspects.Radiation carcinogenesis.616.9897Thaul Susan872205MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910456103603321The five series study2447899UNINA