Sanders, Charles L.
Radiation Hormesis and the Linear-No-Threshold Assumption
1. Introduction
2. Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms
3. Natural Environmental Radiation
4. Accidents, Tests, and Incidents
5. Medical Exposures and Workers
6. Nuclear Workers
7. Biased Epidemiological Studies
8. Evidence Negating the Healthy Worker Eff ect
9. Lung Cancer
10. Breast Cancer
11. Leukemia
12. Liver, CNS, and Thyroid Cancers
13. Lifespan, Birth Defects, and Experimental Cancer
14. Animal and Human Cancer Therapeutic Studies
15. Conclusions, Summary, and Importance
Keywords: Medicine & Public Health, Radiotherapy, Effects of Radiation/Radiation Protection, Biophysics and Biological Physics, Environmental Health
- Author(s)
- Sanders, Charles L.
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2010
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 228 pages
- Category
- Medicine, Health Care, Mode
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9783642037207