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Title: Review and Evaluation of Updated Research on the Health Effects Associated with Low-Dose Ionizing Radiation

Abstract

Potential health effects of low levels of radiation have predominantly been based on those effects observed at high levels of radiation. The authors have reviewed more than 200 percent publications in radiobiology and epidermiology related to low dose radiation and concluded that recent radiobiological studies at low-doses; that doses <100 mSv in a single exposure appear to be too small to allow epidermiological detection of statistically significant excess cancers in the presence of naturally occurring cancers; that low dose radiation research should to holistic, systems-based approaches to develop models that define the shape of the dose-response relationships at low doses; and that these results should be combined with the latest epidermiology to produce a comprehensive understanding of radiation effects that addresses both damage, likely with a linear effect, and response, possibly with non-linear consequences.

Authors:
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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
984205
Report Number(s):
PNNL-SA-71309
Journal ID: ISSN 0144-8420; ISSN 1742-3406; KP1602020; TRN: US1005237
DOE Contract Number:  
AC05-76RL01830
Resource Type:
Journal Article
Journal Name:
Radiation Protection Dosimetry, 140(2):103-136
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 140; Journal Issue: 2; Journal ID: ISSN 0144-8420
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
61 RADIATION PROTECTION AND DOSIMETRY; DETECTION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIPS; EVALUATION; IONIZING RADIATIONS; RADIATION EFFECTS; RADIATIONS; RADIOBIOLOGY; SHAPE; US RADIOLOGIC TECHNOLOGISTS; TRANSFORMATION IN-VITRO; INDUCED GENOMIC INSTABILITY; NORMAL HUMAN FIBROBLASTS; ATOMIC-BOMB SURVIVORS; RAT LUNG IRRADIATION; LOW-LET RADIATION; TECHA RIVER POPULATION; SOLID CANCER INCIDENCE; NUCLEAR-POWER-PLANTS

Citation Formats

Dauer, Lawrence T, Brooks, Antone L, Hoel, David G, Morgan, William F, Stram, Daniel, and Tran, Phung. Review and Evaluation of Updated Research on the Health Effects Associated with Low-Dose Ionizing Radiation. United States: N. p., 2010. Web. doi:10.1093/rpd/ncq141.
Dauer, Lawrence T, Brooks, Antone L, Hoel, David G, Morgan, William F, Stram, Daniel, & Tran, Phung. Review and Evaluation of Updated Research on the Health Effects Associated with Low-Dose Ionizing Radiation. United States. https://doi.org/10.1093/rpd/ncq141
Dauer, Lawrence T, Brooks, Antone L, Hoel, David G, Morgan, William F, Stram, Daniel, and Tran, Phung. 2010. "Review and Evaluation of Updated Research on the Health Effects Associated with Low-Dose Ionizing Radiation". United States. https://doi.org/10.1093/rpd/ncq141.
@article{osti_984205,
title = {Review and Evaluation of Updated Research on the Health Effects Associated with Low-Dose Ionizing Radiation},
author = {Dauer, Lawrence T and Brooks, Antone L and Hoel, David G and Morgan, William F and Stram, Daniel and Tran, Phung},
abstractNote = {Potential health effects of low levels of radiation have predominantly been based on those effects observed at high levels of radiation. The authors have reviewed more than 200 percent publications in radiobiology and epidermiology related to low dose radiation and concluded that recent radiobiological studies at low-doses; that doses <100 mSv in a single exposure appear to be too small to allow epidermiological detection of statistically significant excess cancers in the presence of naturally occurring cancers; that low dose radiation research should to holistic, systems-based approaches to develop models that define the shape of the dose-response relationships at low doses; and that these results should be combined with the latest epidermiology to produce a comprehensive understanding of radiation effects that addresses both damage, likely with a linear effect, and response, possibly with non-linear consequences.},
doi = {10.1093/rpd/ncq141},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/984205}, journal = {Radiation Protection Dosimetry, 140(2):103-136},
issn = {0144-8420},
number = 2,
volume = 140,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 2010},
month = {Thu Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 2010}
}