Title Five Series Study: Mortality of Military Participants in U.S. Nuclear Weapons Tests (The compass series)

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Description 1 online resource Contents 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 -- PLUMBBOB -- ESTIMATES OF EXTERNAL DOSES -- 4 Data Sources COHORT IDENTIFICATIONNuclear 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 SERIES6 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 ANALYSISVariables -- 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 CharacteristicsOther 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 Subject Nuclear weapons testing victims -- Health aspects Soldiers -- Mortality Nuclear weapons -- Testing -- Health aspects Radiation carcinogenesis. Neoplasms, Radiation-Induced Nuclear weapons -- Testing -- Health aspects Radiation carcinogenesis Soldiers -- Mortality Form Electronic book Author Susan Thaul Harriet Crawfor ISBN 9780309569392 0309569397 9780309067812 0309067812

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