Title Exposure of the American people to Iodine-131 from Nevada nuclear-bomb tests : review of the National Cancer Institute report and public health implications / Committee on Thyroid Screening Related to I-131 Exposure, Board on Health Care Services, Institute of Medicine, and Committee on Exposure of the American People to I-131 from the Nevada Atomic Bomb Tests, Board on Radiation Effects Research, Commission on Life Sciences, National Research Council.

Descript 1 online resource (xv, 272 pages) : illustrations Note "Support for this project was provided by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (Contract Number NO1-OD-4-2139, TO35)"--Title page verso Bibliog. Includes bibliographical references. Contents 1. Introduction -- 2. Review of the NCI Radiation Dose Reconstruction -- 3. Health Risks of I-131 Exposure -- 4. Implications for Clinical Practice and Public Health Policy -- 5. Communicating with the Public about Exposure to I-131 -- 6. Research Needs -- App. A. Study Activities -- App. B. Copy of the Memorandum from Dr. Charles Land to Dr. Richard Klausner -- App. C. Calculation of Collective Thyroid Dose to the U.S. Population from the Release of [superscript 131]I from the Nuclear Weapons Tests in Nevada -- App. D. Thyroid Cancer in Idaho, 1970-1996 -- App. E. Applicable Radiation Exposure Standards and Guides: Past and Present -- App. F. Screening for Thyroid Cancer: Background Paper. Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - Worldwide Subject Ionizing radiation -- Dosage. Nevada National Security Site (Nev.) Iodine -- Isotopes -- Toxicology -- United States. Nuclear weapons testing victims -- Health risk assessment -- United States. Thyroid gland -- Cancer -- United States -- Epidemiology. Radiation carcinogenesis -- United States. Radiation -- Dosage. Public health. Ionizing radiation. Radiation Dosage Environmental Exposure -- adverse effects Public Health Public Policy Radiation Effects Radiation, Ionizing United States public health. MEDICAL -- Infectious Diseases. HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- Contagious. Radiation -- Dosage. (OCoLC)fst01086842 Public health. (OCoLC)fst01082238 Ionizing radiation. (OCoLC)fst00978640 Iodine -- Isotopes -- Toxicology. (OCoLC)fst00978536 Ionizing radiation -- Dosage. (OCoLC)fst00978642 Radiation carcinogenesis. (OCoLC)fst01086911 Thyroid gland -- Cancer -- Epidemiology. (OCoLC)fst01906574 Nevada -- Nevada National Security Site. (OCoLC)fst01253309 United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155 Alt Author Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on Thyroid Screening Related to I-131 Exposure. National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Exposure of the American People to I-131 from the Nevada Atomic Bomb Tests. ISBN 0585047294 (electronic bk.) 9780585047294 (electronic bk.) 9780309061759 030906175X 030906175X