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Molecular mechanisms of radiation carcinogenesis and the linear, non-threshold dose response model of radiation risk
1Department of Radiation Biology, St. Bartholomew's and the Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary & Westfield College, UK.
Radiation and Environmental Biophysics
|August 10, 2000
Abstract:
Recent research in molecular radiation carcinogenesis is reviewed with the specific aim of exploring the implications this research may have on the dose response relationship of radiation-induced cancer at low doses and low dose rates. It is concluded that the linear non-threshold dose response hypothesis may be used in radiation protection planning as a simple, convenient method to optimize procedures and regulations, but should not be mistaken as a stringent scientific conclusion directly derived from the present state of knowledge of the processes involved in radiation carcinogenesis.