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Health Risks from Exposure to Low Levels of Ionizing Radiation: BEIR VII – Phase 2 | Paperback

by Committee to Assess Health Risks from Exposure to Low Levels of Ionizing Radiation (Author), National Research Council (Author)

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Paperback

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National Academies Press

Edition:

1st Edition

Page Count:

424 Pages

Publication Date:

March 23, 2006

Sales Rank:

1,139,619st

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This book is the seventh in a series of titles from the National Research Council that addresses the effects of exposure to low dose LET (Linear Energy Transfer) ionizing radiation and human health. Updating information previously presented in the 1990 publication, "Health Effects of Exposure to Low Levels of Ionizing Radiation: BEIR V", this book draws upon new data in both epidemiologic and experimental research. Ionizing radiation arises from both natural and man-made sources and at very high doses can produce damaging effects in human tissue that can be evident within days after exposure. However, it is the low-dose exposures that are the focus of this book. So-called late effects, such as cancer, are produced many years after the initial exposure. This book is among the first of its kind to include detailed risk estimates for cancer incidence in addition to cancer mortality. "BEIR VII" offers a full review of the available biological, biophysical, and epidemiological literature since the last BEIR report on the subject and develops the most up-to-date and comprehensive risk estimates for cancer and other health effects from exposure to low-level ionizing radiation.

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