Institute of Radiation Protection

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Conference: 'Late Health Effects of Ionizing Radiation: Bridging the Experimental and Epidemiological Divide'

Georgetown University
Washington DC
May 4-6, 2009

Contributions of the particiants

Session I: Non-targeted effects and carcinogenesis

  • Kevin Prise: Bystander responses and low-dose exposures: current evidence and future research requirements (PDF)
  • Markus Eidemüller: Possible expressions of radiation-induced genomic instability and a bystander effect in cancer epidemiology (PDF)
  • Christian Streffer: Strong association between cancer and genomic instability (PDF)

Session II: Radiation-related cellular and genetic effects

  • Ohtsura Niwa: Stem cells: radiation response, tissue kinetics and carcinogenesis (PDF)
  • Jan Boei: Induction of genetic damage by low doses of ionizing radiation
  • Carita Lindholm: Clastogenic factors in blood plasma from subjects exposed to ionizing radiation (PDF)

Session III: Radiation sensitive subgroups

  • Penelope Jeggo: Mechanisms conferring sensitivity to low dose radiation exposure and consideration of potentially sensitive individuals (PDF)
  • Flora van Leeuwen: Radiation exposure and the risk of breast cancer in BRCA1/2 mutation carriers (PDF)
  • Cecile Ronckers: Mortality among women with scoliosis after nearly 50 years of follow-up (PDF)

Session IV: Radiation exposure assessment for epidemiologic studies

  • Marina Degteva: Structure of a new Techa River dosimetry system: general approach and evaluation of parameters
  • Wesley Bolch: Hybrid computational phantoms for medical dose reconstruction (PDF)
  • Isabelle Thierry-Chef: Radiation dose to the breast from mammography over past decades: a statistical summary for use in retrospective exposure assessment

Session V: Quantifying carcinogenic effects in radiation workers

  • Elisabeth Cardis: Lymphohematopoietic malignancies and thyroid cancer in Chernobyl clean-up workers
  • Colin Muirhead: Mortality and cancer incidence following occupational radiation exposure: third analysis of the UK National Registry for Radiation Workers
  • Klervi Leuraud: Joint effects of radon exposure and smoking on lung cancer among uranium miners: a combined analysis of three European case-control studies

Session VI: New issues in occupational exposures

  • Martha Linet: Cancer risks in medical radiation workers (PDF)
  • Michaela Kreuzer: Radon and risk of lung and non-lung cancer: updated results of the German uranium miner cohort study (PDF)
  • Hajo Zeeb: Cancer mortality among German aircrew: second follow-up (PDF)

Session VII: Site-specific cancers following environmental exposures

  • Alina Brenner: Incidence of thyroid cancer after exposure to iodine-131 due to the Chernobyl accident
  • Ludmila Krestinina: Leukemia incidence risk for the cohort of exposed people resident in the Techa River villages: 1953-2005 (PDF)
  • Susan Pinney: Breast cancer incidence is related to uranium particulate exposure in a population living near a uranium refinery
  • Dale Preston: Issues in the estimation of site-specific cancer risks when the number of radiation associated cases for any site is not large (PDF)

Session VIII: Radiation exposure, smoking, and lung cancer

  • Hatim Fakir: The role of progression in radiation-induced lung cancers: an interdisciplinary approach (PDF)
  • Alan Birchall: Plutonium worker dosimetry (PDF)
  • Kyoji Furukawa: Interaction effects of radiation and smoking on lung cancer risks among atomic bomb survivors

Session IX: Late Health effects of radiation therapy

  • Leslie Robison: Long-term effects of radiation exposure among adult survivors of childhood cancer (PDF)
  • Sarah Darby: Radiation-induced heart disease: recent results and current challenges
  • Amy Berrington: Second solid cancers in breast cancer survivors: estimated fraction attributable to radiotherapy

Session X: Radiation-related cardiovascular disease

  • Fiona Stewart: Cardiovascular damage and capillary endothelial cell damage as an underlying mechanism of late tissue damage (PDF)
  • Mark Little: Review of epidemiological associations between low/moderate doses of ionizing radiation and circulatory disease risks, and their possible mechanisms (PDF)
  • Tamara Azizova: Radiation-related cardiovascular disease among Mayak nuclear workers (PDF)

Session XI: Radiation exposure and non-malignant conditions

  • Yoichiro Kusunoki: Immunological alterations in aging A-bomb survivors
  • Roy Shore: Seeing is believing: are excess cataracts at lower doses for real? (PDF)
  • Elaine Ron: Non-malignant thyroid diseases following a wide range of radiation exposures (PDF)

Session XII: Radiation risk and the public

  • David Brenner: Risks and benefits associated with 70 million CT scans
  • Julian Preston: Risk perception, communication, and policy

Poster session

  • Gerry M. Kendall: Magnitude and variability of exposures to natural background radiation in the UK (PDF)
  • Daniel J. Strom: A unified approach to uncertainty for Mayak Production Association worker dosimetry (PDF)
  • Alexander Ulanovsky: Advanced validation of population external exposures in radioactively contaminated Techa River valley (PDF)
  • Kimio Tanaka: Dose and dose-rate effects of long-term exposure to low-dose rate gamma rays on unstable-type chromosome aberration frequencies in mouse splenocytes (PDF)
  • Richard Wakeford: The proportion of childhood leukemia incidence in the UK that may be caused by natural background ionising radiation (PDF)
  • Clemens Woda: Progress in luminescence dosimetry in contaminated settlements (PDF)