ReviewNature reviews. Cancer2009
Assessing cancer risks of low-dose radiation.
Review in Nature reviews. Cancer, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 90 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Who cites it
90 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Radiotherapy for childhood cancer and subsequent thyroid cancer risk: a systematic review.European journal of epidemiology · 2018Pooled it
- Meta-analysis of non-tumour doses for radiation-induced cancer on the basis of dose-rate.International journal of radiation biology · 2011Pooled it
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- The Future of Radioactive Medicine.Radiation research · 2023Review
- Cancer risk in adult congenital heart disease.International journal of cardiology. Congenital heart disease · 2023Review
- Non-linear dose response of DNA double strand breaks in response to chronic low dose radiation in individuals from high level natural radiation areas of Kerala coast.Genes and environment : the official journal of the Japanese Environmental Mutagen Society · 2023Article
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Authors and funding
5 authors.
Funding
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Abstract
Ionizing radiation is considered a non-threshold carcinogen. However, quantifying the risk of the more commonly encountered low and/or protracted radiation exposures remains problematic and subject to uncertainty. Therefore, a major challenge lies in providing a sound mechanistic understanding of low-dose radiation carcinogenesis. This Perspective article considers whether differences exist between the effects mediated by high- and low-dose radiation exposure and how this affects the assessment of low-dose cancer risk.
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