The Five Series Study : Mortality of Military Participants in U. S. Nuclear Weapons Tests.

The Five Series Study -- Copyright -- REVIEWERS -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Glossary -- Contents -- Summary -- METHODS -- FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION -- 1 Study Rationale and Overview -- RATIONALE -- BACKGROUND -- OVERVIEW -- 2 Other Studies of Radiation Exposure of Military Personnel -- INTRODUCTION -- MILITARY POPULATIONS -- 3 An Overview of the U.S. Nuclear Weapons Testing Program -- GREENHOUSE -- UPSHOT-KNOTHOLE -- CASTLE -- REDWING -- PLUMBBOB -- ESTIMATES OF EXTERNAL DOSES -- 4 Data Sources -- COHORT IDENTIFICATION -- Nuclear Test Personnel Review Program -- National Archives and Military Collections -- CHARACTERISTICS OF COHORT MEMBERS, INCLUDING DATE OF BIRTH AND VITAL STATUS -- Beneficiary Identification and Records Locator Subsystem -- VA Master Index -- Military Personnel Folder -- CAUSE OF DEATH -- Veteran's Claim Folder -- National Death Index -- POPULATION MORTALITY RATES FOR COMPARISON -- 5 The Participant Cohort -- RELATIONSHIP OF PARTICIPANT ROSTERS USED IN THE 1985 PUBLICATION AND THIS REPORT -- PARTICIPATION IN SERIES OTHER THAN THE SELECTION SERIES -- 6 The Referent Cohort -- 7 Exposure Definition and Measurement -- DNA-PROVIDED DOSE ESTIMATES -- Individual Doses -- Alternative Uses of Dose Data -- POTENTIAL SURROGATE MEASURES OF DOSE -- DECISIONS FOR THE ANALYSES IN THIS REPORT -- FUTURE OPTIONS FOR USE OF DOSIMETRY -- 8 Mortality Ascertainment -- FACT-OF-DEATH ASCERTAINMENT -- FACT-OF-DEATH VALIDATION -- DATE OF DEATH -- CAUSE-OF-DEATH ACQUISITION -- CAUSE-OF-DEATH VALIDATION -- 9 Analysis Structure -- OVERVIEW -- AVAILABLE DATA -- ANALYSIS -- Variables -- Type of Analysis -- Diagnosis Groups -- 10 Description of Cohort Characteristics -- 11 Findings -- TESTS OF PREDETERMINED PRINCIPAL ENDPOINTS -- DESCRIPTIVE ANALYSES OF PREDETERMINED ADDITIONAL MORTALITY ENDPOINTS.

INVESTIGATING LEUKEMIA RISK BY LAND AND SEA SERIES PARTICIPATION -- INVESTIGATING LEUKEMIA RISK BY TIME SINCE FIRST PARTICIPATION AND AGE AT FIRST PARTICIPATION -- 12 Discussion -- LIMITATIONS -- Fact-of-Death and Cause-of-Death Ascertainment -- Statistical Power -- Other Possible Confounding Factors -- Military Service Characteristics -- Other Lifetime Radiation Exposure -- Contributing and Associated Causes of Death -- Inadequate Dosimetry -- DISCUSSION -- Leukemia -- Thyroid Cancer -- Lung Cancer -- Nasal Cancer -- Prostate Cancer -- CONCLUDING COMMENTS -- References -- APPENDIX A A Review of the Dosimetry Data Available in the Nuclear Test Personnel Review Program -- APPENDIX B National Association of Atomic Veterans Medical Survey -- APPENDIX C Epidemiology Primer -- CHOICE OF COMPARISON GROUP -- FINE TUNING OF EXPOSED GROUP -- CONFOUNDERS -- DATA COLLECTION -- INTERPRETING DATA FINDINGS -- EPIDEMIOLOGY SUMMARY RELATED TO THIS STUDY -- APPENDIX D Verification of Completeness and Accuracy of the Participant Roster -- COMPARISON TO THE PARTICIPANT ROSTER USED FOR THE 1985 STUDY -- Computer File Match -- Reviewing Discrepancies by Hand -- Sample for DTRA Verification -- Participants Found Only in the Current Dataset-New Only -- Participants Found in Both the 1985 and 1999 Datasets-Matched -- Participants Found Only in the 1985 Dataset-Old Only -- Overlap of the 1985 and 1999 Participant Rosters -- COMPARISON OF 1999 PARTICIPANT ROSTER WITH OTHER SOURCES -- National Association of Atomic Veterans (NAAV) Mortality Study List -- Participants Solicited Through Veterans' Journals-Write-Ins -- Participants from Public Meetings -- DISCUSSION -- CONCLUSION -- APPENDIX E Additional Analyses -- DETAIL BY COHORT -- DETAIL BY SERVICE AND BY SERIES -- SERIES-SPECIFIC ASSOCIATIONS -- Investigating Leukemia Risk Among Single Series Participants.

APPENDIX F Biographical Summaries -- AUTHORS -- ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEMBERS -- F Biographical Summaries -- AUTHORS -- ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEMBERS.

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