Title: Radiation prevents much cancer

Authors: T.D. Luckey

Addresses: University of Missouri, 1719 Brandon Woods Drive, Lawrence, KS 66047, USA

Abstract: Evidence reviewed here supports the concept that chronic exposure to ionising radiation can dramatically decrease cancer incidence and mortality. This evidence includes an inverse relationship between radiation levels and cancer induction and/or mortality in: over 200 million people in the USA; 200 million people in India; 10,000 residents of Taipei who live in cobalt-60 contaminated homes; high radiation areas of Ramsar, Iran; 12 million person-years of exposed and carefully selected control nuclear workers; almost 300,000 homes with radon in the USA; non-smokers in high radon areas of Saxony, Germany.

Keywords: chronic exposure; cancer incidence; radiation exposure; low radiation; ionising radiation; radon; USA; United States; Taiwan; Iran; Germany; India; nuclear workers.

DOI: 10.1504/IJLR.2007.017642

International Journal of Low Radiation, 2007 Vol.4 No.4, pp.336 - 344

Published online: 24 Mar 2008 *

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