RadEFX(sm)

[Leif Peterson PhD <peterson@bcm.tmc.edu>]

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What is the RadEFX(sm) Radiation Health Effects Research Resource?
(WWW URL http://radefx.bcm.tmc.edu)
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RadEFX(sm) is a World Wide Web service that provides a forum for health
effects research related to ionizing and non-ionizing radiation in general
and the Chernobyl nuclear accident in particular.   This resource is a 
service of the Center for Cancer Control Research at Baylor College of 
Medicine, Houston, Texas.  It is supported, in part, by funding from the
United States Office of Naval Research (ONR) in collaboration with the
International Consortium for Research on the Health Effects of Radiation
(ICRHER).  

Please visit our Web site at <http://radefx.bcm.tmc.edu>.  We welcome your 
comments and suggestions.  A description of the contents follow:


RadEFX(sm) CALENDAR

IONIZING RADIATION HEALTH EFFECTS FORUM

    1. Disaster Preparedness for Radiation Accidents
        Research needs for disaster preparedness
	Improving dialogue with communities
	Risk assessment methodologies
	Recommendations for an ideal dose reconstruction
	Health effects of acute radiation exposure
	Patient treatment and management for acute radiation syndromes

    2. Radiation Research Needs
	Executive Summary
	Abbreviations used
	Population-based research
	Basic research
	Source publications

    3. Research Projects
	Research Related to the Chernobyl Nuclear Accident
		International Consortium for Research on the Health Effects 
			of Radiation
		Kurchatov Institute's Project "Polyn"
		Other Sources of Information


	Research on Health Effects of Ionizing Radiation from Sources
          Other than the Chernobyl Nuclear Accident
		Radiation Effects Research Foundation
		Comprehensive Epidemiologic Data Resource
		Brookhaven National Laboratory (NNDC)
		Brookhaven National Laboratory (Saf. & Env. Prot.)
		Los Alamos National Laboratory (NIS)
		Los Alamos National Laboratory (Waste Mgmt.)
		Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Env. Sciences)
		Radiation and Health Physics (Univ. of Michigan)

    4. Population Registries

	Registries related to the Chernobyl Nuclear Accident
		Baylor College of Medicine's USA Chernobyl Immigrant Registry
		Hadassah Medical Organization's Israel Chernobyl Immigrant Registry
		Kurchatov Institute's Project "Polyn"

	Sources of Information on Other Population Registries
		Radiation Effects Research Foundation
		Comprehensive Epidemiologic Data Resource


    5. Key Publications
        	Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Accident
		Nuclear Weapons Testing by the United States
		Nuclear Weapons Testing by the FSU in Semipalatinsk, Kazakstan
		Nuclear Weapons use on the Cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan
		Health Effects of Radiation in Manned Space Activities
		Ionizing Radiation and Thyroid Cancer in Children
		Ionizing Radiation and Multistage Models of Carcinogenesis
		Other Selected Key Publications

    6. Nuclear Regulatory Agencies



RESEARCH SOFTWARE FORUM
	Epicure - AMFIT Command Language for RERF and BEIR-V Models
		Command files for Constant RERF Models
		Command files for Non-constant RERF Models
		Command files for Preferred BEIR-V Non-constant Models
	COVAR - Confidence Intervals for Odds Ratios Using Variance-Covariance
                        Matrices from Logistic Regression
	PIRLS - Poisson Iteratively Reweighted Least Squares
	SURVMOD - Parametric Survival Analysis for Grouped Data
	SAMPLE - Sample Size Calculations for Matched Cohort Designs
	FIT12 - NRPB Code for Comparing Leukemia among F_1 offspring in
		in Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Ontario, Dounreay and Sellafield
		 (with permission)

SEARCHABLE DATA BASE (under development)

OTHER INTERNET RESOURCES


For more information contact Paul Cooper at pcooper@bcm.tmc.edu


With best regards,

Leif Peterson



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Leif E. Peterson, Ph.D., M.P.H.                    Phone: (713) 798-4614 
Assistant Professor of Medicine                      Fax: (713) 798-3990 
Center for Cancer Control Research          E-mail: peterson@bcm.tmc.edu 
Department of Medicine, ST-924                                           
Baylor College of Medicine               
One Baylor Plaza                          
Houston, Texas  77030                     
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