In his analysis of the literature on radiation cancerogenesis, the author suggests (subject to further study) that (a) all malignancies may be stimulated by irradiation; (b) all types of radiation may be cancerogenic; (c) the risk is about 1-5 cases per million population per year per rad absorbed in relevant tissue for several sites; (d) the excess is manifested some limited number of years following a latent period (shorter for leukemia than for other malignancies; (e) chronic lymphatic leukemia is an apparent exception to the generality concerning all malignancies; and (j) fetal tissue may be several times more sensitive. Relatively high doses of radiation are either noncancerogenic or follow a different quantitative relationship from that seen at low doses.
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George B. Hutchison (1972) studied this question.