The data are on mortality among survivors of atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during the period October 1, 1950 through December 31, 1985. The population consists of all members of the Radiation Effects Research Foundation (RERF) Life Span Study (LSS) cohort with complete follow-up for whom DS86 dose estimates were available in December, 1987. This population is identical to that used for the anlayses discussed by Preston and Pierce (RERF TR 9-87 and Radiation Research, vol. 114, pp. 437-66, 1987) and in Life Span Study Report 11, Part 1 (RERF TR 12-87 and Radiation Research, vol. 118, pp. 502-24, 1989) and Part 2 (RERF TR 5-88 and Radiation Research, vol. 121, pp. 120-41, 1990). These data were also used in analyses carried out for the BEIR V report (NAS, 1990).

A special version of these data that includes additional stratification on the presence or absence of various acute effects may be found here.


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LSS Report 11 Data

Basic data

cmds86.r11

Mortality data

ds86tf.dat

Transmission factors used to compute organ dose estimates

Documentation

cmdds86.txt

Description of the files and data (ASCII text file)

cmdds86.5p1

Description of the files and data (Word Perfect 5.1 format)

Sample analysis files

cmdds86.scr

Script file used to read the data and fit sample models

cmdds86.log

Log file from the script file