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Children are susceptible to radiation induced cancers, and in the last decade, several cohort studies have reported increased cancer risks following computed tomography (CT) scans in childhood. However, cohort studies can be limited by insufficient follow-up, indication bias, reverse causation, or by lack of organ doses from CT scans or other exposures. Aust-PERC is a retrospective cohort designed to study the effects of low-dose medical radiation exposure, primarily from CT scans, in young Australians. The cohort was ascertained using deidentified billing records from patients who were aged 0\u201319 years while enrolled in Medicare (Australia\u2019s universal healthcare system) between 1985 and 2005. All procedures billed to Medicare in this age\/time window that involved low-dose radiation were identified, and persons without such procedures were flagged as unexposed. The Aust-PERC cohort has been linked, using confidential personal identifiers, to the Australian Cancer Database and the National Death Index, on two occasions (to Dec. 2007 and Dec. 2012) by the responsible government agency (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare). Deidentified Medicare service records of all radiological procedures including CT scans, nuclear medicine (NM) scans and fluoroscopy and plain X-ray procedures have been available to derive estimated radiation doses in the cohort. Records of other medical and surgical procedures, together with demographic and socioeconomic variables are being used in analyses to assess biases arising from reverse causation and confounding. After excluding patients with errant records, 11 802 846 persons remained in the baseline cohort, with an average follow-up time of 22.3 years to December 2012. There were 275 489 patients exposed to diagnostic nuclear medicine scans and 688 363 patients exposed to CT scans before age 20 and before cancer diagnosis. Between 1 January 1985 and 31 December 2012, there were 105 124 deaths and 103 505 incident cancers. Dose-response analyses based on the relevant organ doses are underway for individual cancers, and we plan to extend the follow-up for another 8 years to Dec 2020. 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