Other Epidemiological Surveys of Children of Atomic Bomb Survivors

The Radiation Effects Research Foundation has been conducting follow-up surveys to ascertain whether parents' radiation exposure increases their children's incidence rates of lifestyle-related diseases, which are multifactorial disorders. The Foundation has so far conducted a survey of childhood cancer and leukemia¹, a survey of solid tumors², and a survey of lifestyle-related diseases³, but none of them revealed specific radiation effects.

1. Y. Yoshimoto et al.: Am J Hum Genet 46: 1041-1052, 1990.

2. S. Izumi et al.: Br J Cancer 89: 1709-13, 2003.

3. S Fujiwara et al.: Radiat Res 170: 451-7, 2008.

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