Radiation Hormesis and the Linear-No-Threshold Assumption

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Sanders, Charles L. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Radiotherapy.; Biophysics.; Biological physics.; Radiation protection.; Radiation > Safety measures.; Environmental health.; Medicine & Public Health.; Effects of Radiation/Radiation Protection.; Biophysics and Biological Physics.; Environmental Health.

Current radiation protection standards are based upon the application of the linear no-threshold (LNT) assumption, which considers that even very low doses of ionizing radiation can cause cancer. The radiation hormesis hypothesis, by contrast, proposes that low-dose ionizing radiation is not only sa...

Table of Contents:

• Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms
• Natural Environmental Radiation
• Accidents, Tests, and Incidents
• Medical Exposures and Workers
• Nuclear Workers
• Biased Epidemiological Studies
• Evidence Negating the Healthy Worker Eff ect
• Lung Cancer
• Breast Cancer
• Leukemia
• Liver, CNS, and Thyroid Cancers
• Lifespan, Birth Defects, and Experimental Cancer
• Animal and Human Cancer Therapeutic Studies
• Conclusions, Summary, and Importance.