TABLE 1.

Epidemiological studies demonstrating radiation hormesis in the lung

		PROFAC × 100 (%)
Study (workers/patients)	Reference	All Cancer	Lung Cancer
U.S.shipyard	Sponsler and Cameron 2005	16	7
Airline crew	Blettner et al. 2002; Band et al. 1996	21–29	23–72
U.S. nuclear	Howe el al. 2004	35	41
Canadian nuclear	Zablotska et al. 2004	26	19–60
Japanese nuclear	Iwasaki el al. 2003	6	28–57
Korean nuclear	Jin et al. 2002	21–49	34
UK nuclear	Carpenter et al. 1998	27	35–41
UKAEA	Atkinson et al. 2004	10	11
Russian nuclear	Khokryakov and Romanov 1994	7	35
Canadian dose registry	Sont et al. 2001	21	31
U.S. fluoroscopy	Howe 1995	—	6–18
U.S. technologists	Doody etal. 1998	—	17–39
Japanese technologists	Yoshinaga et al. 1999	—	38–55
Indoor radon	Cohen 1995	—	−20
Japanese radon spa	Mifune 1992	37	45
British radiologists	Berrington et al. 2001	29	26–100
U.S. female nuclear	Wilkinson et al. 2000	17	47
Breast cancer patients	Luckey 2003	—	50
Mayak plutonium	Khokhriakov and Romanov 1996	—	47–61