Citation

Cardis E. Environ. Health Perspect. 1996; 104(Suppl 3): 643-649.

Affiliation

Programme on Radiation and Cancer, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1996, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

8781398

PMCID

PMC1469629

Abstract

Much of the information on the health effects of radiation exposure available to date comes from long-term studies of the atomic bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Accidental exposures, such as those resulting from the Chernobyl and Kyshtym accidents, have as yet provided little information concerning health effects of ionizing radiation. This paper will present the current state of our knowledge concerning radiation effects, review major large-scale accidental radiation exposures, and discuss information that could be obtained from studies of accidental exposures and the types of studies that are needed.

Language: en