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RADIATION MEASUREMENTS
Volume 73, Issue -, Pages 51-59Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.radmeas.2015.01.007
Keywords
High background natural radiation areas (HBNRAs); Ramsar; Guarapari; Kerala; Yangjiang; Cancer epidemiology; Chromosomal aberration; Dosimetry
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- Research Management Center of Universiti Teknologi Malaysia [Q.J130000.21A2.01E98]
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The residents of the world's high background natural radiation areas (HBNRAs), such as Ramsar (in Iran), Guarapari (in Brazil), Orissa and Kerala (in India) and Yangjiang (in China) have lived in these areas for generations under extraordinary radiation fields. The failure of earlier epidemiological studies to report any substantial increase in cancer incidence in HBNRAs has raised some controversy regarding the validity of the linear no-threshold hypothesis. This paper reviews some of the most recent studies of HBNRAs with the intent of stimulating greater research interest in the dosimetric, epidemiological and radiobiological issues related to the world's HBNRAs and proposes solutions to the challenges facing HBNRA studies. This paper may serve as a useful reference for some of the harder-to-find literature. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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