Personalized Cancer Risk Assessments for Space Radiation Exposures

Individuals differ in their susceptibility to radiogenic cancers and there is evidence that this inter-individual susceptibility extends to HZE ion-induced carcinogenesis. Three components of individual risk: sex, age at exposure and prior tobacco use, are already incorporated into the NASA cancer...

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Main Authors: Michael M. Weil, Paul A. Locke
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Oncology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fonc.2016.00038/full