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Table 1 Point dose estimates and related odd ratios for breast cancer after radiotherapy of Hodgkin's disease from Travis et al [8].

From: Dose-response relationship for breast cancer induction at radiotherapy dose

Median dose (range)[Gy]

Cases

Controls

Odds ratio (stand. dev.)

p-value

EAR optimized with A-bomb agex= 30 agea= 70, α/β= 3 (std. dev.)

3.2 (0-3.9)

15

76

Reference

Reference

19.3

4.6 (4.0-6.9)

13

30

2.2 (1.4-3.4)

0.07

42.5 (27.5-65.7)

21.0 (7.0-23.1)

16

30

2.7 (1.8-4.1)

0.02

52.3 (34.4-79.5)

24.5 (23.2-27.9)

9

30

1.5 (0.9-2.4)

0.38

29.4 (18.3-47.2)

35.2 (28.0-37.1)

20

31

3.3 (2.2-4.9)

<0.01

63.3 (42.3-94.6)

39.8 (37.2-40.4)

12

31

2.0 (1.3-3.1)

0.13

38.0 (24.4-59.0)

41.7 (40.5-61.3)

17

29

3.0 (2.0-4.5)

0.01

57.5 (37.9-87.1)

  1. EAR was optimized for age at exposure of 30 years, attained age 70 years and α/β = 3Gy.