Finding a new 'sweet spot' for improving cancer risk assessment
Tuesday, March 22, 2016 - 13:10
in Health & Medicine
An environmental toxicologist who has been an outspoken critic of the current linear no-threshold (LNT) approach to risk assessment for radiation and toxic chemicals, now proposes a new approach integrating LNT with hormetic dose-response models. The new strategy, applied to chronic animal bioassays, would reconcile previously conflicting methods to offer 'significant improvements' and maximize public health benefits, he and co-authors say.