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Archives of Industrial Hygiene and Toxicology, Vol. 65 No. 3, 2014.

Review article

https://doi.org/10.2478/10004-1254-65-2014-2425

Current trends in estimating risk of cancer from exposure to low doses of ionising radiation

Marija Majer orcid id orcid.org/0000-0002-0781-2365 ; Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia
Željka Knežević ; Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia
Saveta Miljanić ; Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia

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Abstract

Although ionising radiation has proven beneficial in the diagnosis and therapy of a number of diseases, one should keep in mind that irradiating healthy tissue may increase the risk of cancer. In order to justify an exposure to radiation, both the benefits and the risks must be evaluated and compared. The deleterious effects of medium and high doses are well known, but it is much less clear what effects arise from low doses (below 0.1 Gy), which is why such risk estimates are extremely important. This review presents the current state, important assumptions and steps being made in deriving cancer risk estimates for low dose exposures.

Keywords

Dose and Dose-Rate Effectiveness Factor; epidemiology; Life Span Study; low-LET radiation; Linear No Threshold model; radiation risk

Hrčak ID:

126608

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/126608

Publication date:

11.9.2014.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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