Health risks from exposure to low levels of ionizing radiation : BEIR  VII Phase 2
By: Committee to Assess Health Risks from Exposure to Low Levels of Ionizing Radiation, Board on Radiation Effects Research, Division on Earth and Life Studies, National Research Council of the National Academies
Contributors: National Research Council (U.S.). Committee to Assess Health Risks from Exposure to Low Level of Ionizing Radiation
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 406
Subjects: Ionizing radiation -- Toxicology; Ionizing radiation -- Physiological effect; Ionizing radiation -- Dose-response relationship
Notes: This is the seventh in a series of reports from the National Research Council prepared to advise the U.S. government on the relationship between exposure to ionizing radiation and human health

Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-372) and index
Table of contents: title: Background Infomration; title: Molecular and Cellullar Response to Ionizing Radiation; title: Radiation-Induced Cancer: Mechanisms, Quantitative Experimental Studies, and the Role of Genetic Factors; title: Heritable Genetic Effects of Radiation in Human Populations; title: Background for Epidemiologic Methods; title: A-Bomb Survivor Studies; title: Medical Radiation Studies; title: Occupational Radiation Studies; title: Environmental Radiation Studies; title: Inegration of Biology and Epidemiology; title: Risk Assessment, Models, and Methods; title: Estimating Cancer Risk; title: Summary and Research Needs