Friday, July 18, 2014

Publications Supporting Beneficial Effects of Low-Dose Radiation

Publications Supporting Beneficial Effects of Low-Dose Radiation

Listed below are some publications that are supportive of the view that low-dose radiation has beneficial effects:  

1.       CALABRESE, E. J. & BALDWIN, L. A. 2000. Radiation hormesis: its historical foundations as a biological hypothesis. Hum Exp Toxicol, 19, 41-75.  http://het.sagepub.com/content/19/1/41
2.       CAMERON, J. R. 2002. Radiation increased the longevity of British radiologists. Br J Radiol, 75, 637-9. http://www.birpublications.org/doi/full/10.1259/bjr.75.895.750637
3.       CHOI, N. C., TIMOTHY, A. R., KAUFMAN, S. D., CAREY, R. W. & AISENBERG, A. C. 1979. Low dose fractionated whole body irradiation in the treatment of advanced non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Cancer, 43, 1636-42.  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/582159
4.       COHEN, B. 2007. The Cancer Risk from Low-Level Radiation. In: TACK, D. & GEVENOIS, P. (eds.) Radiation Dose from Adult and Pediatric Multidetector Computed Tomography. Berlin: Springer-Verlag. http://rd.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/174_2011_401
5.       CUTTLER, J. M. & POLLYCOVE, M. 2003. Can Cancer Be Treated with Low Doses of Radiation? Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons 8.  http://www.jpands.org/vol8no4/cuttler.pdf
6.       DOSS, M. 2012. Shifting the paradigm in radiation safety. Dose Response, 10, 562-83.  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3526328/
7.       DOSS, M. 2013. Linear No-Threshold Model vs. Radiation Hormesis. Dose Response, 11, 480-497. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24298226
8.       FAROOQUE, A., MATHUR, R., VERMA, A., KAUL, V., BHATT, A. N., ADHIKARI, J. S., AFRIN, F., SINGH, S. & DWARAKANATH, B. S. 2011. Low-dose radiation therapy of cancer: role of immune enhancement. Expert Rev Anticancer Ther, 11, 791-802.  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21554054
9.       FEINENDEGEN, L. E. 2005. Evidence for beneficial low level radiation effects and radiation hormesis. Br J Radiol, 78, 3-7. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15673519
10.   FEINENDEGEN, L. E., POLLYCOVE, M. & NEUMANN, R. D. 2013. Hormesis by Low Dose Radiation Effects: Low-Dose Cancer Risk Modeling Must Recognize Up-Regulation of Protection. In: BAUM, R. P. (ed.) Therapeutic Nuclear Medicine. Springer.  http://rd.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/174_2012_686
11.   JAWOROWSKI, Z. 1997. Beneficial effects of radiation and regulatory policy. Australas Phys Eng Sci Med, 20, 125-38.  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9409013
12.   LIU, S. Z. 2007. Cancer control related to stimulation of immunity by low-dose radiation. Dose Response, 5, 39-47.  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2477702/
13.   LUCKEY, T. D. 1980. Hormesis with ionizing radiation, Boca Raton, Fla., CRC Press. http://books.google.com/books?id=adZqAAAAMAAJ
14.  LUCKEY, T. D. 1991. Radiation hormesis, Boca Raton, Fla., CRC Press. http://books.google.com/books?isbn=0849361591
15.  LUCKEY, T. D. 2006. Radiation hormesis: the good, the bad, and the ugly. Dose Response, 4, 169-90. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2477686/
16.  LUCKEY, T. D. 2008. Atomic bomb health benefits. Dose Response, 6, 369-82. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2592990/
17.  POLLYCOVE, M. 2007. Radiobiological Basis of Low-Dose Irradiation in Prevention and Therapy of Cancer. Dose-Response, 5, 26-38. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2477707/
18.  SAKAMOTO, K. 2004. Radiobiological basis for cancer therapy by total or half-body irradiation. Nonlinearity Biol Toxicol Med, 2, 293-316.  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2657505/
19.  SANDERS, C. L. 2010. Radiation hormesis and the linear-no-threshold assumption, Heidelberg, Springer.  http://rd.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-642-03720-7
20.  SCOTT, B. R. 2008. It's time for a new low-dose-radiation risk assessment paradigm--one that acknowledges hormesis. Dose Response, 6, 333-51.  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2592992/
21.   TAKATORI, M., HATTORI, S. & YAGI, M. 2010. Clinical significance of low-dose radiation therapy: radiation hormesis. International Journal of Low Radiation, 7, 511-519.  http://inderscience.metapress.com/content/n228864021m58031/
22.  TUBIANA, M., DIALLO, I., CHAVAUDRA, J., LEFKOPOULOS, D., BOURHIS, J., GIRINSKY, T., BRIDER, A., HAWKINS, M., HADDY, N., EL-FAYECH, C., ADJADJ, E., CLERO, E. & DE VATHAIRE, F. 2011. A new method of assessing the dose-carcinogenic effect relationship in patients exposed to ionizing radiation. A concise presentation of preliminary data. Health Phys, 100, 296-9. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21595074
23.  TUBIANA, M., FEINENDEGEN, L. E., YANG, C. & KAMINSKI, J. M. 2009. The linear no-threshold relationship is inconsistent with radiation biologic and experimental data. Radiology, 251, 13-22. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2663584/
24.  VAISERMAN, A. M. 2010. Radiation hormesis: historical perspective and implications for low-dose cancer risk assessment. Dose Response, 8, 172-91.  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2889502/