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Radiation Protection Dosimetry Advance Access published online on January 18, 2005
Radiation Protection Dosimetry, doi:10.1093/rpd/nch445
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Radiation Protection Dosimetry © Oxford University Press 2005; all rights reserved
Received September 6, 2004
Revised November 24, 2004
Accepted December 5, 2004

SCIENTIFIC NOTE

THREE MILE ISLAND EPIDEMIOLOGIC RADIATION DOSE ASSESSMENT REVISITED: 25 YEARS AFTER THE ACCIDENT

R. William Field 1*

1 Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, Department of Epidemiology, College of Public Health, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242

* To whom correspondence should be addressed.
R. William Field, E-mail: bill-field{at}uiowa.edu


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Over the past 25 years, public health concerns following the Three Mile Island (TMI) accident prompted several epidemiologic investigations in the vicinity of TMI. One of these studies is ongoing. This commentary suggests that the major source of radiation exposure to the population has been ignored as a potential confounding factor or effect modifying factor in previous and ongoing TMI epidemiologic studies that explore whether or not TMI accidental plant radiation releases caused an increase in lung cancer in the community around TMI. The commentary also documents the observation that the counties around TMI have the highest regional radon potential in the United States and concludes that radon progeny exposure should be included as part of the overall radiation dose assessment in future studies of radiation-induced lung cancer resulting from the TMI accident.


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