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. 2011 Mar 17;119(7):933–939. doi: 10.1289/ehp.1002674

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Dose–response relationship between incident thyroid cancers and I‑131 dose estimates in a cohort study of thyroid cancer and other thyroid diseases after the Chornobyl accident in Ukraine. The solid line represents fitted RRs based on the linear ERR model; data points and error bars represent category-specific RRs and 95% CIs for mean I‑131 dose per category. The fitted linear dose response was adjusted to pass through the lowest I‑131 category. The ERR was adjusted for sex, oblast of residence at the first screening examination, and continuous attained age.