I would like to discuss (a) how important discoveries over the last 100 years help to quantify the risk of cancer in populations exposed to man-made sources of ionizing radiation, and (b) how periodic episodes of contamination of the environment with radioactive elements have created public health problems.
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Lewis, E.B. (2007). Ionizing Radiation, Cancer Induction, and Radioactive Fallout. In: Lipshitz, H.D. (eds) Genes, Development, and Cancer. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6345-9_27
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