Radiation Hormesis: Historical Perspective and Implications for Low-Dose Cancer Risk Assessment
Current guidelines for limiting exposure of humans to ionizing radiation are based on the linear-no-threshold (LNT) hypothesis for radiation carcinogenesis under which cancer risk increases linearly as the radiation dose increases. With the LNT model even a very small dose could cause cancer and the...
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2010-04-01T00:00:00Z.
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