Re: Cancer in US veterans exposed to radiation

["Otto G. Raabe" <ograabe@ucdavis.edu>]

July 9, 1998
Davis, CA

There is no table relating veterans radiation exposures to cancer
induction. Few if any veterans received total effective doses exceeding 10
rem (100 mSv), and it is exceedingly unlikely that a dose less than 10 rem
would lead to a measurable increase in cancer of any type.

Otto
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