Although not necessarily statistically significant, a decreasing trend with increasing age at exposure has been suggested for the risk of rectal [ 32 ], liver [ 33 ], brain and central nervous system [ 41 ], and thyroid [ 42 ] cancers, and an increasing trend for colon cancer [ 32 ], lung cancer [ 34 ], and myeloid leukemia [ 43 ]; a peak around menarche has been suggested for breast [ 36 ] and uterine corpus [ 37 ] cancers.
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Trans-Scale Insights into Variability in Radiation Cancer Risk Across Tissues, Individuals, and Species.
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The epidemiology of Japanese atomic bomb survivors shows a decreasing trend in ERR/Gy (−22% per decade) and EAR/Gy (−30% per decade) with increasing age at exposure.