Advisory Group on Ionising Radiation (AGIR): Subgroup on Solid Cancer Risk

Terms of reference

The terms of reference of the subgroup are to review information on the risk of solid cancers following exposure to ionising radiation and to derive risk estimates for the UK population, with consideration of uncertainties.

Membership

Chairman

Professor Sir Nicholas Wald, Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine, University of London

Members

Dr Amy Berrington, US National Cancer Institute, Bethesda
Professor Bryn Bridges, OBE, University of Sussex
Professor Doug Easton, Cancer Research UK Genetic Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge
Dr Mark Little, Imperial College Faculty of Medicine
Dr Charles Stiller, Childhood Cancer Research Group, University of Oxford
Professor Martin Vessey, Unit of Health-Care Epidemiology, University of Oxford

Corresponding members

Dr Elisabeth Cardis, Center for Research in Environmental Epidemiology, Barcelona
Professor Sarah Darby, Clinical Trial Service Unit, University of Oxford
Dr Kiyo Mabuchi, US National Cancer Institute, Bethesda
Professor Tony Swerdlow, Institute of Cancer Research, London
Professor Leo Kinlen, University of Oxford

Secretariat

Dr Colin Muirhead, HPA

Observer

Dr Hilary Walker, Department of Health

First meeting

January 2005

Last reviewed: 8 July 2008