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Radiation epidemiology: old and new challenges.

Author(s) -

Roy E. Shore

Publication year - 1989

Publication title -

environmental health perspectives

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.257

H-Index - 282

eISSN - 1552-9924

pISSN - 0091-6765

DOI - 10.1289/ehp.8981153

Subject(s) - radiation , epidemiology , background radiation , environmental health , magnitude (astronomy) , radiation exposure , risk assessment , toxicology , medicine , risk analysis (engineering) , biology , computer science , physics , nuclear medicine , pathology , computer security , quantum mechanics , astronomy

Over the last 40 years the amount of knowledge about human radiation effects has increased dramatically. During that interval, radiation epidemiologists have documented a number of additional types of radiation-induced cancer and have established rough estimates of the magnitude of cancer risks. Nevertheless, we currently have inadequate knowledge about a number of factors that help define the magnitude of radiation risks. These include questions of estimating risk over the lifetime, shapes of dose-effect curves, magnitude of risks at low doses, potentiation between radiation and other agents, and the nature and role of host susceptibility factors. Data from various studies are used to illustrate these questions.

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