Key studies used to support cancer risk assessment questioned

Environmental and Molecular Mutagenesis

Volumn 52, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 595-606

  Calabrese, Edward J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Dose response; Ionizing radiation; Linearity; Mutagenicity; Risk assessment; Threshold

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; DROSOPHILA; EXPERIMENTAL MOUSE; GAMMA RADIATION; GENE MUTATION; GERM CELL; IONIZING RADIATION; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; RADIATION DOSE; RISK ASSESSMENT; X RAY;

ANIMALS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; LINEAR MODELS; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; RADIATION, IONIZING; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80053620898     PISSN: 08936692     EISSN: 10982280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/em.20662     Document Type: Article

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