Introduction to the special issue on the US Million Person Study of health effects from low-level exposure to radiation

John D. Boice Jr.a National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements, Bethesda, MD, USA;b Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USACorrespondence[email protected] [email protected]

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André Bouvillec National Cancer Institute (retired), Bethesda, MD, USA

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Lawrence T. Dauerd Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA

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Ashley P. Goldene ORISE Health Studies, Oak Ridge Associated Universities, Oak Ridge, TN, USA

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Richard Wakefordf Centre for Occupational and Environmental Health, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

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RW is a consultant to the UK Compensation Scheme for Radiation-Linked Diseases (CSRLD). Otherwise, no potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Notes

1 Also known as the Million U.S. Workers and Veterans Study (MWS), and earlier as the Atomic and Nuclear Energy Worker (ANEW) Study (Boice Citation2012) (http://anewstudy.org/).

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Funding

NCRP acknowledges the financial support of the MPS-related work presented in this special issue from U.S. DOE [Grants # DE-SC0008944, DE-SC0014664, DE-AU0000042 and DE-AU0000046], NASA [Grants # NNX15AU88G, 80NSSC17M0016 and 80NSSC19M0161], U.S. Navy [Grant # N00024-17-C-4322], the National Cancer Institute [U01 CA137026], and the CDC [Grants # 5EU1EH000989 and 5NUE1EH001315].

Notes on contributors

John D. Boice Jr.

John D. Boice Jr. is the past President of the NCRP and Professor of Medicine at Vanderbilt University. He served on the Main Commission of the International Commission on Radiological Protection and on the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation. He directs the Million Person Study of Low-Dose Health Effects.

André Bouville

André Bouville is a leading expert on radiation dose reconstruction. He was the Head of the Dosimetry Unit of the Radiation Epidemiology Branch at NCI until he retired at the end of 2010. He chaired NCRP SC 6-9 on the dosimetry for the Million Person Study, producing NCRP Report No. 178.

Lawrence T. Dauer

Lawrence T. Dauer is an Attending Physicist specializing in radiation protection at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in the Departments of Medical Physics and Radiology. He is a Council and former Board member of the NCRP, served as a member of ICRP Committee 3, Protection in Medicine, and is the Scientific Director for the Million Person Study.

Ashley P. Golden

Ashley P. Golden is a Senior Biostatistician and Director of ORISE Health Studies at Oak Ridge Associated Universities, where she conducts multidisciplinary projects in occupational epidemiology, radiation exposure and dosimetry, medical surveillance, and environmental assessments.

Richard Wakeford

Richard Wakeford is an Honorary Professor in Epidemiology in the Centre for Occupational and Environmental Health at The University of Manchester, United Kingdom, where he specializes in radiation epidemiology. Professor Wakeford has served on UNSCEAR, ICRP, NCRP, UK and EU committees throughout his career.

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