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Radiation-Induced Cancer From Low-Dose Exposure
John W. Gofman, M.D., Ph.D. 1990.

CONTENTS: (Longer chapters begin with their own table of contents.)



Pagination starts newly with each chapter.
Tables and figures are assembled at each chapter's end.

Section 1: Introduction
Text-
Length
Tables &
Figures
Chapter About The Author ...................................................................................... vii 0
  Foreword, January, 1990 ............................................................................ 2 0
1 The Five Most Important Conclusions of This Book ....................................... 5 0
2 The Role of Independent Analyses in Research on Toxic Agents .................... 2 0
3 The Intended Readership ............................................................................ 3 0

Section 2: The Atomic Bomb Survivors -- A Study and Its Alteration
4 Overview of a Uniquely Valuable Database .................................................... 2 1
5 A Growing Problem: Retroactive Alteration of the Study ................................. 11 2
6 What Will Happen to the A-Bomb Database? A Pending Proposal ................... 2 0

Section 3: Preparing the Database for Analysis
7 Collecting All the Required Data from RERF .................................................. 2 0
8 Dosimetry: From Bomb, to Kerma, to Internal Organ-Dose ............................ 9 0
9 Converting T65DR Mean Kerma Values to Mean Internal Organ-Doses .......... 2 4
10 Obtaining Mean DS86 Doses for the T65DR Cohorts ...................................... 2 6
11 Achievement of Age- and Sex-Matching across the Dose-Groups ................ 4 8

Section 4: Cancer-Risk and Dose-Response in Both Dosimetries
12 The Focus on Two Central Questions ............................................................ 5 0
13 Analysis and Results by the Cancer Difference Method .................................. 7 5
14 Shape of the Dose-Response Relationship, and Low-Dose Cancer-Yields
Based on the Best-Fit Curve ........................................................................
9 7
15 Radiation Risk by Age and Sex, from the Cancer-Rate Ratio Method ............... 9 13
16 Low-Dose Cancer-Yields by the Cancer-Rate Ratio Method,
for A-Bomb Survivors and for the United States ............................................
5 3
17 The Duration of Radiation's Carcinogenic Effect ............................................ 9 2

Section 5: Disproof of Any Safe Dose or Dose-Rate
18 Disproof of Any Safe Dose or Dose-Rate of Ionizing Radiation,
with Respect to Induction of Cancer in Humans .............................................
18 0

  ---- Auxiliary Chapters on the Threshold issue ----
 
19 The Special Interaction of Ionizing Radiation with Living Tissue ...................... 8 0
20 Various Radiation Sources: Primal Electron-Tracks per Nucleus per Rad ........ 7 8
21 Decisive Epidemiological Evidence from Humans .......................................... 20 2

Section 6: The Fallacy of Risk-Reduction Factors for Low and Slow Exposures
22 The Popularity of Risk-Reduction Factors in the Radiation Community ........... 25 0
23 Proper Risk-Estimates for "Low and Slow" Exposures: No Conflict between Human Epidemiology and the Linear-Quadratic Hypothesis from Radiobiology 15 12

Section 7: Practical Impacts on Human Health
24 Chernobyl: A Crossroad in the Radiation Health Sciences ............................. 20 2
25 Main Text: A Closing Statement ................................................................ 17 0

Section 8: Supporting Chapters
26 Master Table and Special RERF Data for the A-Bomb Study .......................... 1 13
27 Significance of Elevated Cancer Death-Rate in Various Dose-Groups, and Confidence-Limits on Cancer-Yields (Cancer Difference Method) ................. 4 2
28 Estimated Spontaneous Cancer-Mortality in the A-Bomb Reference Group, for a Completed Lifespan Follow-Up ............................................................ 2 4
29 Curvilinear Regression and Equations of Best Fit ............................................ 4 5
30 The Shape of Dose-Response, in Cancers per 10,000 Person-Years ............... 1 7
31 Dose-Increment for Smail Body-Size in Age-Band 0-9 Years ATB ............... 3 2
32 Calculation of Primay Electrons per Photon, and Their Energies ....................... 3 4
33 Calculation of Range for Each High-Speed Electron ....................................... 10 0
34 Allusions to the Possible Existence of Safe Doses and Dose-Rates .................. 9 0
35 Hormesis: The Nature of Speculations about Undemonstrated "Beneficial Effects" ..................................................................................................... 21 1
36 Assessing Chernobyl's Cancer Consequences, September 9, 1986 .................. 33 0
37 Membership on Various Radiation Committees .............................................. 9 0

        References ........................................................................................... 10 0
        Index and Glossary ............................................................................... 12 0
SUM .......................................................................................................................... 342 113



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