Re: Radiation hypersensitivity

["Jerry Cohen" <jjcohen@PRODIGY.NET>]

> Yet, those defects, like AT  gene, are relatively rare, and such rare

> abnormalities can explain only a small fraction of the excess cancer due

to

> low-level ionizing radiation.



    In hormesis literature there is lots of data indicating reduced cancer

incidence

at low-dose (<10 rem/y) exposures. I was not aware of the occurence of

"excess cancer  due to low-level ionizing radiation".

Please cite the evidence supporting occurance of such excess cancer.



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