Retinoblastoma and low level radiation.

Retinoblastoma and low level radiation.

The village of Seascale, near the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant, is best known in epidemiological circles for its longstanding high incidence ofmalignant disease in young people,' which has recently been confirmed as having persisted during 1984-90.2 Throughout, the excess has been largely accounted for by leukaemia and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. No cases of retinoblastoma have been found ...

Retinoblastoma: a possible link with low level radiation.

Evidence for beneficial low level radiation effects and radiation hormesis.

Low doses in the mGy range cause a dual effect on cellular DNA. One is a relatively low probability of DNA damage per energy deposition event and increases in proportion to the dose. At background exposures this damage to DNA is orders of magnitude lower than that from endogenous sources, such as reactive oxygen species. The other effect at comparable doses is adaptive protection against DNA da...

Radiation Hormesis in Humans Exposed to Low Level Ionizing Radiation

Through various researches and investigations it has been established that high doses of ionizing radiation are harmful to health. There is substantial controversy regarding the effects of low doses of ionizing radiation despite the large amount of work carried out (both laboratory and epidemiological). According to the linear no-threshold (LNT) hypothesis, any amount, however small, of radiati...

Effects of low level radiation-what's new?

A comprehensive review of the effects of exposure to low levels of ionizing radiation, BEIR VII-Phase 2: Health Risks From Exposure to Low Levels of Ionizing Radiation, was published in 2006. The BEIR (Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation) reports are a series of publications by the National Academy of Sciences. The last BEIR report on the effects of low level radiation, BEIR V, was publish...