The scientific development of dosimetry underlies the credibility of health-effects studies that quantify risk of cancer and other late health effects of ionizing radiation. Such studies are summarized in the recommendations of major international advisory bodies and are the basis for risk estimation, not only for occupational exposures but also for exposures such as those from medical procedures and nuclear power plant accidents.
Although stemming from great tragedy, the ABCC/RERF studies represent a triumph of exposure science in which “true” doses were pinned down with greater and greater accuracy by integrated application of increasingly sophisticated questionnaire, physical, statistical, chemical, spatial, and biological methods.
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