Elisabeth Cardis

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..Further studies will be important to better assess the role of tobacco and other occupational exposures in our risk estimates...

..If confirmed, mutation carriers may wish to consider alternatives to X-ray for diagnostic purposes. The need for tailored cancer treatment strategies in carriers should also be evaluated carefully...

..As such, they may have important consequences for the radiation protection of patients and of the general population in case of further nuclear emergencies...

..Particular attention was paid to estimating the amount and direction of potential recall and participation biases and their impact on the study results...

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..To provide direct estimates of risk of cancer after protracted low doses of ionising radiation and to strengthen the scientific basis of radiation protection standards for environmental, occupational, and medical diagnostic exposures...

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..Doses from "lower-energy" photons (<100 keV) and from "higher-energy" photons (>3 MeV) were estimated to be small...

..A thorough compilation of the results of all radiation monitoring that was performed in French Polynesia in 1966-1974 would be likely to greatly improve the reliability and the precision of the dose estimates...

..Although recall bias and uncertainties in doses could have affected the magnitude of the risk estimates, the findings of this study contribute to a better characterization the risk of thyroid cancer after radiation exposure in adulthood...

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..Although sensitivity analyses showed generally similar results, we cannot rule out the possibility that biases and uncertainties could have led to over- or underestimation of the risk in this study...

..To quantitatively assess the impact of selection bias caused by nonparticipation in a multinational case-control study of mobile phone use and brain tumor...

..However, apparent overestimation by cases in more distant time periods could cause positive bias in estimates of disease risk associated with mobile phone use...

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..Well-focused studies could verify these predictions, in particular with regard to the risks of leukaemia among liquidators and breast cancer among young women in the most contaminated areas...

..To improve indices of RF exposure for epidemiological studies, we assessed determinants of mobile phone output power in a multinational study...

..It was applied to personnel readings in one facility, confirming the experts' estimation. Beyond the International Study, the method has implication for the monitoring and protection of workers...

..It is not known, however, whether such effects also occur following the lower doses and dose rates of public health concern...

..even at low energy. These results are being used to estimate errors in the response for each dosemeter type, used in the participating facilities, so that these can be taken into account in the estimates of cancer risk...

..To validate short term recall of mobile phone use within Interphone, an international collaborative case control study of tumours of the brain, acoustic nerve, and salivary glands related to mobile telephone use...

..The uncertainties in the dose estimates were subjectively estimated on the basis of the availability and reliability of the radiation data that were used for dose reconstruction in each country...

..4 mSv. A strong healthy worker effect was observed in most countries. This study provides the largest body of direct evidence to date on the effects of low-dose protracted exposures to external photon radiation...

..This study had little power due to low doses, short follow-up periods, and uncertainties in CLL ascertainment from death certificates; an extended follow-up of the cohorts is merited and would ideally include incident cancer cases...

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..To investigate possible associations between risk of acoustic neuroma and exposure to loud noise in leisure and occupational settings...

..Analyses of risk by location of tumour are therefore important for the interpretation of results of studies of brain tumours in relation to mobile phone use...

..It is unlikely that this excess could be entirely due to the increased diagnostic activity in these areas...

..A positive dose-response trend was found for these measurements. Based on the largest number of benign PGT patients reported to date, our results suggest an association between cellular phone use and PGTs...

..The objective of the current study was to assess the association between smoking and benign and malignant parotid gland tumors (PGTs) in a nationwide study...

..38 per Sv (90% confidence interval 0.54-12.58). The Monte Carlo maximum likelihood method yielded a slightly lower ERR (4.82 per Sv) and wider confidence interval (0.41-13.31)...

..If confirmed, the results have important implications for the use of x-ray imaging in young BRCA1/2 carriers...

..Further analyses of possible interactions between EMF and specific chemicals will also be conducted. ..