ReviewLancet (London, England)2015
Long-term effects of radiation exposure on health.
Review in Lancet (London, England), 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 147 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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147 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 419 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Radiation exposure from computerized tomography and risk of childhood leukemia: Finnish register-based case-control study of childhood leukemia (FRECCLE).Haematologica · 2018Trial
- Breaking through the radiation dilemma: development and clinical translation of anti-radiation drugs.Pharmaceutical science advances · 2026Review
- Serum Pro-N-Cadherin Correlates With Cardiac Injury in the Radiation Late Effects Cohort of Nonhuman Primates.JACC. Advances · 2026Article
- No increased risk of cancer death after endovascular aortic repair in a nationwide population-based cohort study.The British journal of surgery · 2026Article
- Unraveling the molecular landscape of chronic radiation injury: From oxidative stress signaling to translational modeling (Review).International journal of molecular medicine · 2026Review
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- Radiomitigators: Breakthroughs in Post-Radiation Recovery.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Effects of explaining the merits and demerits of thyroid ultrasound examination on participation intention among adolescents after the Fukushima nuclear accident: a questionnaire survey.Endocrine journal · 2026Article
- Mechanistic trends and therapeutic targets in Radiation-Induced apoptosis: A bibliometric and translational mapping.Radiation and environmental biophysics · 2026Review
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- Mitochondria-targeting organoselenium theranostic radioprotectors for simultaneous treatment and imaging of radiation-induced liver injury.Theranostics · 2026Article
- Research progress on the role and therapeutic applications of traditional Chinese medicine in radiation enteropathy.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2026Review
- Multiple radiations and its effect on biological system - a review onAnnals of medicine · 2025Review
- Assessment of terrestrial gamma radiation dose rates and its associated hazards in Taraba State, Nigeria.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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Abstract
Late-onset effects of exposure to ionising radiation on the human body have been identified by long-term, large-scale epidemiological studies. The cohort study of Japanese survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (the Life Span Study) is thought to be the most reliable source of information about these health effects because of the size of the cohort, the exposure of a general population of both sexes and all ages, and the wide range of individually assessed doses. For this reason, the Life Span Study has become fundamental to risk assessment in the radiation protection system of the International Commission on Radiological Protection and other authorities. Radiation exposure increases the risk of cancer throughout life, so continued follow-up of survivors is essential. Overall, survivors have a clear radiation-related excess risk of cancer, and people exposed as children have a higher risk of radiation-induced cancer than those exposed at older ages. At high doses, and possibly at low doses, radiation might increase the risk of cardiovascular disease and some other non-cancer diseases. Hereditary effects in the children of atomic bomb survivors have not been detected. The dose-response relation for cancer at low doses is assumed, for purposes of radiological protection, to be linear without a threshold, but has not been shown definitively. This outstanding issue is not only a problem when dealing appropriately with potential health effects of nuclear accidents, such as at Fukushima and Chernobyl, but is of growing concern in occupational and medical exposure. Therefore, the appropriate dose-response relation for effects of low doses of radiation needs to be established.
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