Steven L Simon

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Affiliation: National Institutes of Health
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Organ-specific external dose coefficients and protective apron transmission factors for historical dose reconstruction for medical personnel
    Steven L Simon
    Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
    Health Phys 101:13-27. 2011
  2. ncbi Dosimetry for epidemiological studies: learning from the past, looking to the future
    Steven L Simon
    Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
    Radiat Res 166:313-8. 2006
  3. ncbi Estimating historical radiation doses to a cohort of U.S. radiologic technologists
    Steven L Simon
    Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute NCI, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
    Radiat Res 166:174-92. 2006
  4. ncbi Uses of dosimetry in radiation epidemiology
    Steven L Simon
    Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
    Radiat Res 166:125-7. 2006
  5. ncbi External dose estimates for Dolon village: application of the U.S./Russian joint methodology
    Steven L Simon
    Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
    J Radiat Res 47:A143-7. 2006
  6. ncbi Current use and future needs of biodosimetry in studies of long-term health risk following radiation exposure
    Steven L Simon
    Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
    Health Phys 98:109-17. 2010
  7. ncbi Radiation doses and cancer risks in the Marshall Islands associated with exposure to radioactive fallout from Bikini and Enewetak nuclear weapons tests: summary
    Steven L Simon
    Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, 6120 Executive Boulevard, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
    Health Phys 99:105-23. 2010
  8. ncbi 2004 update of dosimetry for the Utah Thyroid Cohort Study
    Steven L Simon
    Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892 7230, USA
    Radiat Res 165:208-22. 2006
  9. ncbi Acute and chronic intakes of fallout radionuclides by Marshallese from nuclear weapons testing at Bikini and Enewetak and related internal radiation doses
    Steven L Simon
    Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, 6120 Executive Boulevard, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
    Health Phys 99:157-200. 2010
  10. ncbi The geographic distribution of radionuclide deposition across the continental US from atmospheric nuclear testing
    Steven L Simon
    Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, Radiation Epidemiology Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Executive Plaza South, 6120 Executive Boulevard, Bethesda, MD 20892 7238, USA
    J Environ Radioact 74:91-105. 2004

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Publications44

  1. ncbi Organ-specific external dose coefficients and protective apron transmission factors for historical dose reconstruction for medical personnel
    Steven L Simon
    Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
    Health Phys 101:13-27. 2011
    ....
  2. ncbi Dosimetry for epidemiological studies: learning from the past, looking to the future
    Steven L Simon
    Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
    Radiat Res 166:313-8. 2006
  3. ncbi Estimating historical radiation doses to a cohort of U.S. radiologic technologists
    Steven L Simon
    Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute NCI, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
    Radiat Res 166:174-92. 2006
    ..The models and predictions presented here, while continuing to be modified and improved, represent one of the most comprehensive dose reconstructions undertaken to date for a large cohort of medical radiation workers...
  4. ncbi Uses of dosimetry in radiation epidemiology
    Steven L Simon
    Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
    Radiat Res 166:125-7. 2006
  5. ncbi External dose estimates for Dolon village: application of the U.S./Russian joint methodology
    Steven L Simon
    Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
    J Radiat Res 47:A143-7. 2006
    ..This report presents the basic elements of the joint methodology model for estimation of external dose received from SNTS fallout...
  6. ncbi Current use and future needs of biodosimetry in studies of long-term health risk following radiation exposure
    Steven L Simon
    Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
    Health Phys 98:109-17. 2010
    ..The requirements of health risk studies suggest a set of characteristics that, if satisfied by new biodosimetry methods, would increase the overall usefulness of biodosimetry in determining radiation health risks...
  7. ncbi Radiation doses and cancer risks in the Marshall Islands associated with exposure to radioactive fallout from Bikini and Enewetak nuclear weapons tests: summary
    Steven L Simon
    Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, 6120 Executive Boulevard, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
    Health Phys 99:105-23. 2010
    ..The 170 excess cancers are in comparison to about 10,600 cancers that would spontaneously arise, unrelated to radioactive fallout, among the same cohort of Marshallese people...
  8. ncbi 2004 update of dosimetry for the Utah Thyroid Cohort Study
    Steven L Simon
    Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892 7230, USA
    Radiat Res 165:208-22. 2006
    ..In addition, two parameter values were updated. While the mean of all doses has not changed significantly, many individual doses have changed by more than an order of magnitude...
  9. ncbi Acute and chronic intakes of fallout radionuclides by Marshallese from nuclear weapons testing at Bikini and Enewetak and related internal radiation doses
    Steven L Simon
    Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, 6120 Executive Boulevard, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
    Health Phys 99:157-200. 2010
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  10. ncbi The geographic distribution of radionuclide deposition across the continental US from atmospheric nuclear testing
    Steven L Simon
    Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, Radiation Epidemiology Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Executive Plaza South, 6120 Executive Boulevard, Bethesda, MD 20892 7238, USA
    J Environ Radioact 74:91-105. 2004
    ..This paper presents a summary of the methods used and findings of our studies on fallout from NTS and global fallout, with emphasis on two of the most important radionuclides, (131)I and (137)Cs...
  11. ncbi A summary of evidence on radiation exposures received near to the Semipalatinsk nuclear weapons test site in Kazakhstan
    Steven L Simon
    Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, 6120 Executive Blvd, MSC 7238, Executive Plaza South, Room 7089, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
    Health Phys 84:718-25. 2003
    ..Thyroid doses from internal irradiation, which can only be estimated via calculation, are expected to have been several times greater than the doses from external irradiation, especially where received by small children...
  12. ncbi Radiation doses to local populations near nuclear weapons test sites worldwide
    Steven L Simon
    Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
    Health Phys 82:706-25. 2002
    ..It is the goal of this paper to summarize the available information on external and internal doses received by the public living in the regions near each of the mentioned nuclear test sites as a consequence of local fallout deposition...
  13. ncbi Transfer of 131I into human breast milk and transfer coefficients for radiological dose assessments
    Steven L Simon
    Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
    Health Phys 82:796-806. 2002
    ..These values are particularly applicable to lactating women having normal diets and availability to stable iodine, as in the United States...
  14. ncbi Polymorphisms in estrogen biosynthesis and metabolism-related genes, ionizing radiation exposure, and risk of breast cancer among US radiologic technologists
    Alice J Sigurdson
    Radiation Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, NIH, DHHS, 6120 Executive Boulevard, EPS 7060, MSC 7238, Bethesda, MD, 20892 7238, USA
    Breast Cancer Res Treat 118:177-84. 2009
    ..06). We found suggestive evidence that common variants in selected estrogen metabolizing genes may modify the association between ionizing radiation exposure and breast cancer risk...
  15. ncbi Breast cancer risk polymorphisms and interaction with ionizing radiation among U.S. radiologic technologists
    Parveen Bhatti
    Radiation Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, MD 20892 7238, USA
    Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 17:2007-11. 2008
    ..001). H19 is a maternally expressed imprinted mRNA that is closely involved in regulating the IGF2 gene and could exert its influence by this or by some other radiation-related pathway...
  16. ncbi Nucleotide excision repair polymorphisms may modify ionizing radiation-related breast cancer risk in US radiologic technologists
    Preetha Rajaraman
    Radiation Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, NIH, DHHS, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
    Int J Cancer 123:2713-6. 2008
    ..1-21.3; EOR/Gy(AC/CC) = 0.6, 95% CI = <0, 4.6; p(het) = 0.01). These results suggest that common variants in nucleotide excision repair genes may modify the association between occupational radiation exposure and breast cancer risk...
  17. ncbi Polymorphisms in apoptosis- and proliferation-related genes, ionizing radiation exposure, and risk of breast cancer among U.S. Radiologic Technologists
    Alice J Sigurdson
    Radiation Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Department of Health and Human Services, 6120 Executive Boulevard, EPS 7092, MSC 7238, Bethesda, MD 20892 7238, USA
    Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 16:2000-7. 2007
    ..For this reason, potential modification of the relationship between ionizing radiation exposure and breast cancer risk by polymorphic apoptosis gene variants have not been investigated among radiation-exposed women...
  18. ncbi Polymorphisms in oxidative stress and inflammation pathway genes, low-dose ionizing radiation, and the risk of breast cancer among US radiologic technologists
    Sara J Schonfeld
    Radiation Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, DHHS, 6120 Executive Blvd MSC 7238, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
    Cancer Causes Control 21:1857-66. 2010
    ..Polymorphic variation in oxidative stress and inflammatory-mediated pathway genes may modify radiation-related breast cancer risk...
  19. ncbi Thyroid nodules, polymorphic variants in DNA repair and RET-related genes, and interaction with ionizing radiation exposure from nuclear tests in Kazakhstan
    Alice J Sigurdson
    Radiation Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, NIH, DHHS, Bethesda, MD 20892 7238, USA
    Radiat Res 171:77-88. 2009
    ..Other pathways such as genes in double-strand break repair, apoptosis and genes related to proliferation should also be pursued...
  20. ncbi Retrospective biodosimetry among United States radiologic technologists
    Parveen Bhatti
    Radiation Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, NIH, DHHS, Bethesda, MD, USA
    Radiat Res 167:727-34. 2007
    ..S. radiologic technologists...
  21. ncbi Projected lifetime cancer risks from exposure to regional radioactive fallout in the Marshall Islands
    Charles E Land
    Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, 6120 Executive Boulevard, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
    Health Phys 99:201-15. 2010
    ....
  22. ncbi Doses from external irradiation to Marshall Islanders from Bikini and Enewetak nuclear weapons tests
    Andre Bouville
    Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
    Health Phys 99:143-56. 2010
    ..to assess the cancer risks among the Marshallese population (Land et al.) resulting from exposure to radiation from the nuclear weapons tests...
  23. ncbi Risk of cataract after exposure to low doses of ionizing radiation: a 20-year prospective cohort study among US radiologic technologists
    Gabriel Chodick
    Radiation Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892 7238, USA
    Am J Epidemiol 168:620-31. 2008
    ....
  24. ncbi Historical review of occupational exposures and cancer risks in medical radiation workers
    Martha S Linet
    Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland 20892 7238, USA
    Radiat Res 174:793-808. 2010
    ....
  25. ncbi Comparison of internal dosimetry factors for three classes of adult computational phantoms with emphasis on I-131 in the thyroid
    Stephanie Lamart
    Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
    Phys Med Biol 56:7317-35. 2011
    ....
  26. ncbi Occupational radiation doses to operators performing cardiac catheterization procedures
    Kwang Pyo Kim
    Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892 7238, USA
    Health Phys 94:211-27. 2008
    ..Better standardization of dosimetric methods will facilitate future analyses aimed at determining how well medical radiation workers are being protected...
  27. ncbi Predictions of dispersion and deposition of fallout from nuclear testing using the NOAA-HYSPLIT meteorological model
    Brian E Moroz
    Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute, 6120 Executive Blvd, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
    Health Phys 99:252-69. 2010
    ..and at the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site (Kazakhstan) were performed. The results of the Marshall Islands simulations were used in a limited fashion to support the dose reconstruction described in companion papers within this volume...
  28. ncbi Fallout deposition in the Marshall Islands from Bikini and Enewetak nuclear weapons tests
    Harold L Beck
    Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
    Health Phys 99:124-42. 2010
    ....
  29. ncbi Radiation dose and cancer risk among pediatric patients undergoing interventional neuroradiology procedures
    Isabelle Thierry-Chef
    Radiation Epidemiology Branch, Division of Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Rockville, MD 20892, USA
    Pediatr Radiol 36:159-62. 2006
    ..CONCLUSION: ALARA principles of collimation and dose optimization are the most effective means to minimize the risk of future radiation-related cancer...
  30. ncbi Polymorphisms in DNA repair genes, ionizing radiation exposure and risk of breast cancer in U.S. Radiologic technologists
    Parveen Bhatti
    Radiation Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, NIH, DHHS, Bethesda, MD 20892 7238, USA
    Int J Cancer 122:177-82. 2008
    ..The suggestive evidence found for modification of radiation-related breast cancer risk for 5 of the 55 SNPs evaluated requires confirmation in larger studies of women with quantified radiation breast doses in the low-to-moderate range...
  31. ncbi Occupational radiation doses to operators performing fluoroscopically-guided procedures
    Kwang Pyo Kim
    Department of Nuclear Engineering, Kyung Hee University, Gyeonggi Do, Republic of Korea
    Health Phys 103:80-99. 2012
    ..Large variations in operator doses suggest that optimizing procedure protocols and proper use of protective devices and shields might reduce occupational radiation dose substantially...
  32. ncbi Risk of thyroid cancer after adult radiation exposure: time to re-assess?
    Kiyohiko Mabuchi
    Radiation Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
    Radiat Res 179:254-6. 2013
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  33. ncbi Estimates of doses from global fallout
    Andre Bouville
    National Cancer Institute, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, Radiation Epidemiology Branch, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
    Health Phys 82:690-705. 2002
    ....
  34. ncbi Health effects from fallout
    Ethel S Gilbert
    Division of Cancer Epidemiotogy and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Rockville, MD 20852, USA
    Health Phys 82:726-35. 2002
    ..Very preliminary estimates of cancer risks from fallout doses received by the United States population are presented...
  35. ncbi Behavior and food consumption pattern of the population exposed in 1949-1962 to fallout from Semipalatinsk nuclear test site in Kazakhstan
    Vladimir Drozdovitch
    Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, NIH, DHHS, 6120 Executive Boulevard, Bethesda, MD, 20892 7238, USA
    Radiat Environ Biophys 50:91-103. 2011
    ..The response data collected are useful for improving estimates of thyroid radiation dose estimates for the subjects of an ongoing epidemiological study...
  36. ncbi Organ doses for reference adult male and female undergoing computed tomography estimated by Monte Carlo simulations
    Choonsik Lee
    Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20852, USA
    Med Phys 38:1196-206. 2011
    ..organ doses in a reference adult male and female for different scan ranges to investigate the degree to which existing commercial programs can reasonably match organ doses defined in these more anatomically realistic adult hybrid phantoms..
  37. ncbi Around Semipalatinsk nuclear test site: progress of dose estimations relevant to the consequences of nuclear tests (a summary of 3rd Dosimetry Workshop on the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site area, RIRBM, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, 9-11 of March, 200
    Valeriy F Stepanenko
    Research Institute for Radiation Biology and Medicine RIRBM, Hiroshima University, Japan
    J Radiat Res 47:A1-13. 2006
    ..The results of investigation of psychological consequences of nuclear tests, which are expressed in the form of verbal behaviour, were presented at this session as well...
  38. ncbi Thyroid disease associated with exposure to the Nevada nuclear weapons test site radiation: a reevaluation based on corrected dosimetry and examination data
    Joseph L Lyon
    Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84108, USA
    Epidemiology 17:604-14. 2006
    ..In 1993, we reported that among those examined in 1985 to 1986 (Phase II) there was an association between radiation from the Nevada Test Site and thyroid neoplasms...
  39. ncbi Review of methods of dose estimation for epidemiological studies of the radiological impact of nevada test site and global fallout
    Harold L Beck
    Radiat Res 166:209-18. 2006
    ..This paper summarizes the various methods of dose estimation from weapons test fallout and the most important dose assessment and epidemiology studies that have relied on those methods...
  40. ncbi Movement of radionuclides in terrestrial ecosystems by physical processes
    Lynn R Anspaugh
    Department of Radiology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City 84108, USA
    Health Phys 82:669-79. 2002
    ..Chernobyl-related results on the movement of radionuclides into the soil column are presented, as is a revised model for this process based upon recent results from Ukraine...
  41. ncbi The relationship of thyroid cancer with radiation exposure from nuclear weapon testing in the Marshall Islands
    Tatsuya Takahashi
    Department of Public Health, Yamagata University School of Medicine, Iida-Nishi, Yamagata, Japan
    J Epidemiol 13:99-107. 2003
    ..There was suggestive evidence that the prevalence of thyroid cancer increased with category of estimated dose to the thyroid...
  42. ncbi Retrospective dose assessment for the population living in areas of local fallout from the Semipalatinsk Nuclear Test Site Part II: Internal exposure to thyroid
    Konstantin Gordeev
    J Radiat Res (Tokyo) 47:A137-41. 2006
    ..2006) in this conference, are presented. The main sources of uncertainty in the estimates are identified...
  43. ncbi Retrospective dose assessment for the population living in areas of local fallout from the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site Part I: External exposure
    Konstantin Gordeev
    J Radiat Res (Tokyo) 47:A129-36. 2006
    ..S. National Cancer Institute in the Republic of Kazakhstan. Recently revised methods and estimates of external exposure for that cohort are given in another paper (Simon et al.) in this conference...
  44. ncbi Credibility of uncertainty analyses for 131I pathway assessments
    F Owen Hoffman
    Health Phys 86:536-8; author reply 538-9. 2004