Cancer risks from low dose exposure to ionising radiation – Is the linear no-threshold model still relevant?

Title: Cancer risks from low dose exposure to ionising radiation – Is the linear no-threshold model still relevant?

Author: Harbron, Richard William
Reference: Radiography, 18 (1), p.28-33, Feb 2012

doi: 10.1016/j.radi.2011.07.003

Keywords: Cancer; Epidemiology; Radiobiology; Non-targeted effects; Hypersensitivity; Radiation protection

Abstract: …radiation induced breast cancer beyond the age of 50…the variation in breast cancer risk with age suggests…occurs. 41 Radiogenic thyroid cancer ERR decreases strongly with age in the LSS and Chernobyl data 10,43 though the…

URL:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1078817411000691

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