Late Health Effects of Ionizing Radiation: Bridging the Experimental and Epidemiologic Divide Available to Purchase

Radiation sciences aim to characterize, quantify and understand the relationship between a disease and radiation exposure. In epidemiology, human data are used to assess risks from occupational, environmental/accidental and medical radiation exposures, whereas experimental studies on animals or cells provide data to help understand the mechanisms of radiation-associated disease. A conference entitled “Late Health Effects of Ionizing Radiation: Bridging the Experimental and Epidemiologic Divide” was held 4–6 May 2009 in Washington, DC to identify important gaps and controversies in radiation research and to stimulate more integrated research through interdisciplinary approaches. Invited speakers from the fields of radiobiology, dosimetry, epidemiology and biostatistics presented research findings on experimental and observational effects from low-dose and low-dose-rate radiation exposures, non-targeted radiobiological effects and how they influence models of carcinogenesis, and radiation-related cancer and non-cancer diseases. This volume of Radiation Research includes 11 papers based on conference presentations that explore recent advances in our understanding...