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Radiation-Induced Cancer

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Low-Dose Exposure :

AN INDEPENDENT ANALYSIS, 1990

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* -- In this book, an expert who is independent of the radiation community provides the human and physical evidence proving that carcinogenesis from ionizing radiation does occur at the lowest conceivable doses and dose-rates. This finding refutes current claims by parts of the radiation community that very low doses or dose-rates may be safe.

* -- The magnitude of hazard per dose-unit is evaluated in this book step-by-step from the newest evidence, and the magnitude is shown to be considerably higher than the 1988 and 1990 estimates from the quasi-official radiation committees.

* -- Because ionizing radiation may turn out to be the most important single carcinogen to which huge numbers of humans are actually exposed (environmentally, occupationally, and medically), the practical implications of this book for cancer prevention are very great.

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• Title Page

• Back Side of Title Page

• Table of Contents

• Back Cover

• About the Author

• Forward to the First Edition, January, 1990

• Chapter 1:   The Five Most Important Conclusions of This Book

• Chapter 2:   The Role of Independent Analyses in Research on Toxic Agents

• Chapter 3:   The Intended Readership

• Chapter 4:   Overview of a Uniquely Valuable Database

• Chapter 5:   A Growing Problem:   Retroactive Alteration of the Study

• Chapter 6:   What Will Happen to the A-Bomb Database?   A Pending Proposal

• Chapter 7:   Collecting All the Required Data from RERF

• Chapter 8:   Dosimetry:   From Bomb, to Kerma, to Internal Organ-Dose

• Chapter 9:   Converting T65DR Mean Kerma Values to Mean Internal Organ-Doses

• Chapter 10:   Obtaining Mean DS86 Doses for the T65DR Cohorts

• Chapter 11:   Achievement of Age- and Sex-Matching across the Dose-Groups

• Chapter 12:   The Focus on Two Central Questions

• Chapter 13:   Analysis and Results by the Cancer Difference Method

• Chapter 14:   Shape of the Dose-Response Relationship, and Low-Dose Cancer-Yields Based on the Best-Fit Curve

• Chapter 15:   Radiation Risk by Age and Sex, from the Cancer-Rate Ratio Method

• Chapter 16:   Low-Dose Cancer-Yields by the Cancer-Rate Ratio Method, for A-Bomb Survivors and for the United States

• Chapter 17:   The Duration of Radiation's Carcinogenic Effect

• Chapter 18:   Disproof of Any Safe Dose or Dose-Rate of Ionizing Radiation, with Respect to Induction of Cancer in Humans

• Chapter 19:   The Special Interaction of Ionizing Radiation with Living Tissue

• Chapter 20:   Number of Primary Electron-Tracks per Cell-Nucleus, per Rad of Dose Received from Various Sources of Radiation

• Chapter 21:   Decisive Epidemiological Evidence from Humans

• Chapter 22:   The Popularity of Risk-Reduction Factors in the Radiation Community

• Chapter 23:   Proper Risk-Estimates for "Low and Slow" Exposures:   No Conflict between Human Epidemiology and the Linear-Quadratic Hypothesis from Radiobiology

• Chapter 24:   Chernobyl:   A Crossroad in the Radiation Health Sciences Retroactive Alteration of the Study

• Chapter 25:   Main Text:   A Closing Statement

• Chapter 26:   Master Table and Special RERF Data for the A-Bomb Study

• References

• Index and Glossary