Bone cancer risk estimates
| Autor: | Puskin Js, Nelson Ns, Nelson Cb |
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| Rok vydání: | 1992 |
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Osteosarcoma
Neoplasms Radiation-Induced Radium-224 Epidemiology business.industry Bone cancer Health Toxicology and Mutagenesis Bone Neoplasms Bone Sarcoma medicine.disease Radiation Dosage Risk Factors medicine Humans Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging medicine.symptom Nuclear medicine business Bone surface Confusion |
| Zdroj: | Health physics. 63(5) |
| ISSN: | 0017-9078 |
| Popis: | Due to confusion between endosteal (bone surface) dose and average skeletal dose, ICRP 60 has substantially overestimated the risk of radiogenic bone cancer. This confusion apparently stems from an incorrect reading of the BEIR IV report, which does not clearly draw this distinction. It should also be noted that what appear to be summary numerical risk estimates for bone sarcoma induction in BEIR IV and BEIR V refer only to average skeletal dose as calculated for 224 Ra |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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