AW: [ RadSafe ] Low, chronic doses of gamma radiation had beneficial effects on meadow voles

[Rainer.Facius at dlr.de]

Eric:

 

Thank you for sharing this interesting finding. Being to my knowledge the first from animals living their 'normal' wildlife, it is just one of several others which have been addressed by the following excerpt ("as in animals") from the very recent report of another at least as prestigious scientific body as the NAS.

 

« L'efficacité de ces mécanismes , la diversité des stratégies mises en oeuvre par la cellule, le tissue et l'ensemble de l'organisme pour réduire ou écarter le risque de cancérisation rendent vraisemblable l'existence d'un seuil réel ou pratique, voire, même pour certains cancers, comme chez l'animal, d'un effet d'hormesis. » (1, p73., italiques originaux)

 

"They [the by now well understood biologic defence mechanisms] strongly suggest that a threshold or a practical threshold does exist and even, for some cancer sites, as in animals, so does a hormetic effect." /2, p.73, original italics/

 

So I would not consider persistence in raising this issue as flaming.

 

Kind regards, Rainer

 

1-   Académie Nationale de Médecine, Académie des Sciences,

La relation dose-effet et l'estimation des effets cancérogènes des faibles doses de rayonnements ionisants. Rapport conjoint No. 2, Paris, 30 Mars 2005 (ISBN 2-84332-017-8)

 

2-   English version:

Dose-effect relationships and the estimation of the carcinogenic effects of low doses of ionizing radiation. Joint report No. 2, Paris, March 30, 2005 (ISBN 2-84332-018-6)

 

In contrast to the English version, the French version embodies several annexes with significant additional facts.

 


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Von: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl im Auftrag von goldinem at songs.sce.com
Gesendet: Fr 19.08.2005 23:54
An: radsafe at radlab.nl
Betreff: [ RadSafe ] Low, chronic doses of gamma radiation had beneficial effects on meadow voles

>From the University of Toronto news, not intended to create LNT/anti-LNT
flames.  Just the facts from an ANS news list:

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Eric M. Goldin
<goldinem at songs.sce.com>