[ RadSafe ] Second Event Theory

[Busby Chris]

Otto is right,
There are field effects in the tissue. But it is also a single and double strand effect, there has to be the seed and the soil as Barcellos Hoff put it. The fixed mutation is the start of it, so Otto is also wrong. We know this from the chromosome damage work and the genomic /bystander work. And (to leave to the last) epidemiology.
C


-----Original Message-----
From: radsafe-bounces at agni.phys.iit.edu on behalf of Otto G. Raabe
Sent: Fri 22/04/2011 03:38
To: The International Radiation Protection (Health Physics) Mailing List
Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Second Event Theory
 
At 01:28 PM 4/21/2011, you wrote:
>I'm interested in Dr. Busby's Second Event Theory. I first encountered
>the theory when my work involved addressing concerns raised by a local
>environmental group in Indiana. In that case, the concern was DU.
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Don't waste time and effort on this one. Radiation induced cancer is 
neither a single or double event process. It is much more complex.

Otto


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