Health effects of exposure to radon time for reassessment

• Συλλογικό Έργο: National Research Council (U.S.) Committee on Health Effects of Exposure to Radon (BEIR VI), National Research Council (U.S.) (Board on Radiation Effects Research, Commission on Life Sciences)
• Μορφή: Βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Washington, DC National Academy Press 1994
• Θέματα: Περιβάλλον > Μόλυνση; Περιβάλλον > Ελεγχος; Χημεία περιβάλλοντος; Ραδιενέργεια

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Radiation biology and carcinogenesis
• Range and track structure of gas particles emitted by radon progeny
• Radiation biology of gas-particle irradiation
• Cell lethality
• Mutation in cultured cells
• Oncogenic transformation in vitro
• Comparison of effects in vivo and in vitro
• Carcinogenesis in laboratory animals
• RBE versus LET
• Dose-rate effects and implications for risk estimates
• Mechanisms of carcinogenesis
• Markers of exposure
• Exposure-dose relations
• Status of studies
• Epidemiologic investigations
• Studies of miners
• Cohorts of miners
• Lung cancer in pooled analysis of 11 cohorts
• Assessment of uncertainty in lifetime risk estimates
• Nonrespiratory cancers
• Nonmalignant respiratory diseases
• Studies of lung cancer in the general environment
• Case-control studies
• Status
• Problems and limitations
• Ecologic studies
• Status
• Problems and limitations
• Radon-induced cancers other than lung cancer
• Studies of miners
• Studies of lung cancer in the general environment