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T.D. Luckey
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RADIATION HORMESIS: Biopositive Effect of Radiations, 1998, T.D. Luckey, Ph.D., Prof. Emeritus U. Missouri-Columbia School of Medicine, Loveland CO, USA.
      "Introduction: My purpose is to promote harmony with nature and to improve our quality of life with the knowledge that cancer mortality rates decrease following exposure to low dose irradiation. Hormesis (Greek HORMO = I excite) is the stimulation of any system by low doses of any agent. Hormology is the study of excitation. Low doses of many agents evoke a biopositive effect ; large doses produce a bionegative effect. The message is simple:  small and large doses induce opposite physiologic results.
     "Radiation hormesis implies stimulation by ionizing radiation. Cancer induction is the most feared action of large doses of ionizing radiation. Therefore, cancer mortality rates will be used to illustrate radiation hormesis in humans. Large doses of ionizing radiation increase cancer mortality rates; this is considered to be harmful. Since small doses decrease cancer mortality rates, low dose irradiation is beneficial. Although small doses of radiation can stimulate cell an cancer growth, the stimulation of different components of our complex immune system more than compensates for simple cellular effects. The net effect is a decreased cancer mortality.
     "This report will a) review the development of the concept of hormesis, b) present an overview of radiation hormesis in humans, c) compare and contrast hormesis and homeopathy, and d) suggest a surprising mechanism. Constraints of time and space dictate that each of these will be very brief."

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Conference Papers

Radiobiology Deceptions Reject Health, 2000, by T. D. Luckey, Ph.D., Prof. Emeritus, U. Missouri-Columbia School of Medicine. Presented at ICONE 8, 8^th International Conference on Nuclear Engineering, April 2-6, 2000, Baltimore, MD USA.  tdl108@sunflower.com [ PDF 146KB ]
     Radiobiology data shows that biological functions are stimulated at low doses of ionizing radiation, while high doses result in detrimental effects. This results in improved health, and successful treatment of medical conditions, by low to moderate radiation doses, as shown in numerous studies, in both animal experiments and human epidemiological studies.
        Public policy, and the public, are misled by deceptions in conducting and reporting research. The unfounded assumption that dose-response is “not inconsistent with” the “Linear No-Threshold” (LNT) hypothesis, is supported to expand radiation protection programs and funding, for no public health benefits.
        Deceptions occur in numerous categories, in both radiobiology and epidemiology research. Categorization and preliminary examples of such deceptions are provided.

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