RE: acute radiation in the news

["Karam, Andrew" <Andrew_Karam@URMC.Rochester.edu>]

There seem to be four factors that affect extrapolating these results:

Acute versus chronic exposure
High dose and dose rate exposure versus low
High LET radiation versus low LET radiation
Mouse versus human

The article mentioned one of these (acute versus chronic), but not the
others.  Has anyone read this paper to comment on whether the authors
mentioned their thoughts on all of these factors?

Andy

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