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Radiation Carcinogenesis • A stochastic late effect. • No threshold, an all or none effect. • Severity is not dose related. • Probability <strong>of</strong> carcinogenesis is dose dependent. • Leukemia has the shortest latency period <strong>of</strong> ~5 years. Solid tumors have a latency period <strong>of</strong> ~20 to 30 years. • Total cancer risk for whole body ir<strong>radiation</strong> is one death per 10 4 individuals exposed to 1 rem.
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