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Science 17 June 1960:
Vol. 131. no. 3416, pp. 1808 - 1809
DOI: 10.1126/science.131.3416.1808
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Life Shortening and Tumor Production by Strontium-90

Victor E. Archer 1 and Benjamin E. Carroll 1

1 National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Hagerstown, Maryland

A linear relationship between dose of internal radiation and two effects, which implies no threshold, is shown to be a possible interpretation of data given by Finkel in "Mice, men and fallout" (1). This interpretation is at variance with that offered by Finkel, which was that the dose-effect relationship is nonlinear and indicates a threshold.

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