Re: Radiation Hormesis

[Steven Dapra <sjd@swcp.com>]

Jan. 19



	T. D. Luckey had review paper on hormesis published in Health Physics but

I can not find the citation.  (It may have been the December 1982 issue.)

As I recall, he listed over 100 papers or articles going back to at least

the 1920s reporting on radiation hormesis.  



	For more on hormesis see:



Archer V. E.  Cancer Death Rates and Background Radiation.  Health Physics.

76(6):692-694; June 1999.



Cameron J. R. Rebuttal to Mossman's Deconstruction of Radiation Benefits.

Health Physics.  81(3):341-342; Sept. 2001.



Health Physics.  52(5); May 1987.  (Entire issue is about hormesis.)



Jagger, J. Response to Archer.  Health Physics. 76(6):694-695; June 1999.



Jagger, J.  Natural Background Radiation and Cancer Death in Rocky Mountain

States and Gulf Coast States.  Health Physics.  75(4):428-430; Oct. 1998.



Luckey, T. D.  Hormesis with Ionizing Radiation, CRC Press, (1980), Boca

Raton. FL.



Mossman, K. L.  Deconstructing Radiation Hormesis.  Health Physics.

80(3):263-269; March 2001.



Mossman, K. L.  Response to Cameron.  Health Physics. 81(3):343; Sept. 2001.



Parsons, P. A.  Radiation Hormesis:  Challenging LNT Theory via Ecological

and Evolutionary Considerations.  Health Physics. 82(4):513-516; April 2002.



	(The above references were gleaned from a search of Health Physics indexes

going back to 1990.)



	More:



There is evidence that moderate doses of radiation stimulate the immune

system. L. E. Feinendegen, Victor P. Bond, and Charles A. Sondhaus in "Can

Low Level Radiation Protect Against Cancer?" (Physics and Society 27:4-6,

1998) 



See:  Smith P.G., and Doll R., in "Mortality From All Causes Among British

Radiologists" (Br. J Radiol, 54:187-194, 1981).  This paper describes the

beneficial effects of radiation on British radiologists who entered the

field after 1920. 



	(The preceding references were copied from the Health Physics Society

website.)



	Still more, from web sites:



Radiation, Science, and Health:  <http://cnts.wpi.edu/RSH/docs/index.html>



See this referenced article:  An Introduction to Radiation Hormesis" by S.

M. Javad Mortazavi, in the Biology Division, Kyoto University of Education,

Japan; at:



<http://www.angelfire.com/mo/radioadaptive/inthorm.html>



Steven Dapra

sjd@swcp.com







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