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To put the Mars radiation dose in perspective, check the Natural Radioactivity page at the University of Michigan radiation information website.

If I am reading this correctly, the typical annual cosmic ray dose on Earth is 27mrem, or 0.027rem.

Which is to say, considerably less than either Mars or ISS.

And here is a link to another U-M page on the health effects of radiation.

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