ReviewOncogene2004
The cancer epidemiology of radiation.
Review in Oncogene, 2004. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 58 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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58 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Association between OGG1 Ser326Cys and APEX1 Asp148Glu polymorphisms and breast cancer risk: a meta-analysis.Diagnostic pathology · 2014Pooled it
- Association between the XRCC3 polymorphisms and breast cancer risk: meta-analysis based on case-control studies.Molecular biology reports · 2012Pooled it
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- Exposure to low-dose radiation and the risk of breast cancer among women with a familial or genetic predisposition: a meta-analysis.European radiology · 2010Pooled it
- Are pre- or postnatal diagnostic X-rays a risk factor for childhood cancer? A systematic review.Radiation and environmental biophysics · 2008Pooled it
- GermlineGenes · 2026Article
- Postmortem Findings from the Wake Forest University Radiation Late Effects Cohort of Rhesus Monkeys (Macaca mulatta).Radiation research · 2025Article
- The importance of data from the atomic bomb survivors for international radiological protection.Carcinogenesis · 2025Article
- Chronic low-dose rate irradiation induces transient hormesis effect on cyanobacteriumiScience · 2025Article
- Resilience, aging, and response to radiation exposure (RARRE) in nonhuman primates: a resource review.GeroScience · 2023Review
- Radiation dose rate effects: what is new and what is needed?Radiation and environmental biophysics · 2022Review
- Increased risk of secondary bladder cancer after radiation therapy for endometrial cancer.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Review of the risk of cancer following low and moderate doses of sparsely ionising radiation received in early life in groups with individually estimated doses.Environment international · 2022Review
- Human Radiosensitivity and Radiosusceptibility: What Are the Differences?International journal of molecular sciences · 2021Review
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- Comparative RNA-Seq transcriptome analyses reveal dynamic time-dependent effects ofBMC genomics · 2020Article
- Path analysis of skin cancer preventive behavior among the rural women based on protection motivation theory.BMC women's health · 2020Article
- Thyroid cancer incidence near nuclear sites in Belgium: An ecological study at small geographical level.International journal of cancer · 2020Article
- Measurement of cumulative radiation exposure to children and adolescents in contact with outpatients treated with low dose radioactive iodine (Journal of the Egyptian National Cancer Institute · 2020Article
- Risk of Hematologic Malignant Neoplasms after Postoperative Treatment of Breast Cancer.Cancers · 2019Article
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Abstract
Ionizing radiation has been the subject of intense epidemiological investigation. Studies have demonstrated that exposure to moderate-to-high levels can cause most forms of cancer, leukaemia and cancers of the breast, lung and thyroid being particularly sensitive to induction by radiation, especially at young ages at exposure. Predominant among these studies is the Life Span Study of the cohort of survivors of the atomic bombings of Japan in 1945, but substantial evidence is derived from groups exposed for medical reasons, occupationally or environmentally. Notable among these other groups are underground hard rock miners who inhaled radioactive radon gas and its decay products, large numbers of patients irradiated therapeutically and workers who received high doses in the nuclear weapons programme of the former USSR. The degree of carcinogenic risk arising from low levels of exposure is more contentious, but the available evidence points to an increased risk that is approximately proportional to the dose received. Epidemiological investigations of nonionizing radiation have established ultraviolet radiation as a cause of skin cancer. However, the evidence for a carcinogenic effect of other forms of nonionizing radiation, such as those associated with mobile telephones or electricity transmission lines, is not convincing, although the possibility of a link between childhood leukaemia and extremely low-frequency electromagnetic fields cannot be dismissed entirely.
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