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Health effects of exposure to radon : time for reassessment?

Title
Health effects of exposure to radon : time for reassessment? / Committee on Health Effects of Exposure to Radon (BEIR VI), Board on Radiation Effects Research, Commission on Life Sciences, National Research Council.
Publication
Washington, DC : National Academy Press, 1994.

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Additional Authors
  • Samet, Jonathan M.
  • National Research Council (U.S.). Board on Radiation Effects Research
  • National Research Council (U.S.). Commission on Life Sciences
  • National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Health Effects of Exposure to Radon
Description
xvii, 94 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Subjects
Note
  • Committee chairman: Jonathan M. Samet.
  • Support provided by the Environmental Protection Agency.
Contents
1. Introduction -- 2. Radiation Biology and Carcinogenesis. Range and Track Structure of [alpha] Particles Emitted by Radon Progeny. Radiation Biology of [alpha]-Particle Irradiation. RBE Versus LET. Dose-Rate Effects and Implications for Risk Estimates. Mechanisms of Carcinogenesis. Markers of Exposure -- 3. Exposure-Dose Relations. Status of Studies -- 4. Epidemiologic Investigations. Studies of Miners. Studies of Lung Cancer in the General Environment.
ISBN
0309050871
LCCN
94066478
OCLC
  • ocm30565493
  • SCSB-4727188
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries