Carcinogenesis dose-response relation

Radiation is carcinogenic. The frequency of death from cancer of the thyroid, breast, lung, esophagus, stomach, and bladder was higher in Japanese survivors of the atomic bomb than in nonexposed individuals, and carcinogenesis seems to be the primary latent effect of ionizing radiation. The minimal latent period of most cancers was <15 years and depended on an individual s age at exposure and site of cancer. The relation of radiation-induced cancers to low doses and the shape of the dose-response curve (linear or nonlinear), the existence of a threshold, and the influence of dose rate and exposure period have to be determined (Hobbs and McClellan 1986). 

J,l/mouse, twice a week for 25 weeks, to female ICR mice produced forestomach tumors (squamous cell carcinoma and papilloma), lung tumors (adenocarcinoma and adenoma), and tumors of the hematopoietic system (thymic lymphosarcoma and lymphatic leukemia), with dose-related response by 18 months. It was concluded that the target organ of benzotrichloride carcinogenesis in mice is the local tissue that is primarily exposed and the lung and hematopoietic tissue when administered systemically. 

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