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IJE Advance Access originally published online on September 21, 2007
International Journal of Epidemiology 2007 36(5):1046-1047; doi:10.1093/ije/dym192
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Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association © The Author 2007; all rights reserved.

Commentary: Low dose-rate exposures to ionizing radiation

E Cardis

Radiation Group, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France.

E-mail: cardis@iarc.fr

Accepted 23 August 2007

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Current radiation protection recommendations1 are mainly based on risk estimates from studies of populations with relatively high doses received at high dose rates, notably the survivors of the atomic bombing in Hiroshima and Nagasaki,2 together with extrapolation models to predict risks associated with lower dose protracted or fractionated exposures. The health effects of low doses of radiation, and particularly the possible existence of a threshold below which there may be no effect, have, however, been the subjects of controversy for decades.3,4

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