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Molecular Biology, Epidemiology, and the Demise of the Linear No-Threshold (LNT) Hypothesis

Myron Pollycove, M.D.

Visiting Medical Fellow, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Professor Emeritus Laboratory Medicine and Radiology, University of California, San Francisco

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Presented at International Symposium on Health Effects of Low Dose Ionizing Radiation

International Centre for Low-Dose Radiation Research

University of Ottawa,
June 8, 1998


 

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