Methods for estimating the probability of cancer from occupational radiation exposure

With increasing public awareness of the presumed risk of harm to health attributable to
use of nuclear energy, there is an increasing number of claims for compensation by workers
(or their relatives) in whom cancer may have arisen from the exposure to radiation at work.
A Technical Committee was formed to examine whether an IAEA Technical Document
could provide guidance to Member States on the methods to be employed to calculate the
probability that any particular cancer might be attributed to an occupational exposure to
radiation.