New take on impacts of low dose radiation

Tuesday, December 20, 2011 - 15:30 in Health & Medicine

Working with a special line of human breast cells, researchers have shown that for low dose levels of ionizing radiation cancer risks may not be directly proportional to dose. This contradicts the standard model for predicting biological damage from ionizing radiation, which holds that risk is directly proportional to dose at all levels of irradiation.

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