[A discussion around Cohen's ecological research on the relationship between the radon content in dwellings and lung cancer mortality].

Autor: Keirim-Markus IB; State Research Center of Russia, Institute of Biophysics, Moscow, Russia. msavkin@rcibph.dol.ru
Jazyk: ruština
Zdroj: Radiatsionnaia biologiia, radioecologiia [Radiats Biol Radioecol] 2000 Jul-Aug; Vol. 40 (4), pp. 465-70.
Abstrakt: B. L. Cohen showed that lung cancer lethality in U.S. sharply contradicts linear no-threshold (LNT) dependence on lung dose. This conclusion undermines established theory and practice for estimation of the irradiation remote risk; therefore, an unusual discussion has risen. Cohen's opponents (LNT adherents) said that he substituted the mean risk in a county for the individual risk that resulted in inadmissible bias of results. However, his critics' conclusions contradict many results found by Cohen and investigations by other authors.
Databáze: MEDLINE