Consideration of measurements and calculations involved in assessment of the effects of human exposure to low doses of ionizing radiation and other mutagens

✍ Scribed by Theodore T. Puck

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1985
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 338 KB
• Volume: 10
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0377-9017
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00398162

✦ Synopsis

Theoretical considerations previously presented are reviewed demonstrating that current methodologies designed to measure environmental mutagenesis contributing to human disease measure only a small fraction of such results. In the absence of an adequate theoretical approach, a new experimental method has been developed which in the case of X-irradiation demonstrates approximately 100-fold more mutations than are detected by other approaches. There is reason to expect major contributions to preventive medicine from these developments.