Highlights

• 2011 Radiation Epidemiology and Dosimetry Course Slides and videocasts of the 2011 Radiation Epidemiology and Dosimetry Course are now available online.
• Higher cancer risk continues after Chernobyl NIH study finds that thyroid cancer risk for those who were children and adolescents when exposed to fallout has not yet begun to decline.
• Berrington de Gonzalez A, et al. Proportion of second cancers attributable to radiotherapy treatment in adults: a cohort study in the US SEER cancer registries. Lancet Oncol.2011 Apr;12(4):353-60.
• Berrington de Gonzalez A, et al. Body-mass index and mortality among 1.46 million white adults. N Engl J Med 2010 Dec 2;363(23):2211-9.
• Rajaraman P, et al. Early life exposure to diagnostic radiation and ultrasound scans and risk of childhood cancer: case-control study. BMJ 2011 Feb 10;342:d472.
• Dosimetry Monograph