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Published in final edited form as: Radiat Res. 2008 Dec;170(6):721–735. doi: 10.1667/RR1231.1

Table 5.

Comparison of risk estimates (and 90% confidence intervals) with comparable estimates from the atomic bomb survivors, nuclear workers and Techa River cohort studies – Leukemia excluding CLL

	Number of ERR/100		90% CI		RR at 100	90% CI
	cases	mSv	90% CI		mSv	90% CI
Atomic bomb survivors ¹⁹
Linear dose-response	83	0.32	0.18	0.52	1.32
Linear-quadratic dose-response	83	0.15 ²⁰	−0.08	0.46	1.15 ^b
15-country nuclear workers
study	196	0.19	<0 ²¹	0.71	1.19
Techa River cohort	60	0.46	0.17	1.23	1.46
Chernobyl liquidators
Leukemia excluding CLL
Linear ERR model	19	0.50	−0.38	5.70	1.50
Log-linear model	19				1.42	0.49	4.31
All hematological malignancies
Linear ERR model	70	0.60	−0.02	2.35	1.60
Log-linear model	70				1.28	0.95	1.74