Low-dose radiation exposure and carcinogenesis

Japanese Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 563-568

  Suzuki, Keiji ^a   Yamashita, Shunichi ^a,b  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b FUKUSHIMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

A bomb survivors; Chernobyl accident; Epidemiology; Ionizing radiation; Low dose; Thyroid cancer

Indexed keywords

DNA POLYMERASE; HISTONE H2AX; POLYDEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDE SYNTHASE; PROTEIN P53;

ATOMIC BOMB SURVIVOR; CANCER RISK; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; CHILDHOOD CANCER; DNA DAMAGE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; G1 PHASE CELL CYCLE CHECKPOINT; HUMAN; IONIZING RADIATION; LIFESPAN; LOW ENERGY RADIATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIATION ACCIDENT; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REVIEW; SINGLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; STEM CELL; THYROID CANCER;

AGE FACTORS; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; JAPAN; LEUKEMIA, RADIATION-INDUCED; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; NUCLEAR WEAPONS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION, IONIZING; RADIOTHERAPY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVORS; THYROID GLAND; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84864335798     PISSN: 03682811     EISSN: 14653621     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jjco/hys078     Document Type: Review

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