The empiric usage of low-dosage irradiation in amenorrhea

Israel, S. Leon

doi:10.1016/0002-9378(52)90360-8

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“…There is no such thing, in fact, as a 'stimulating' effect of ionizing radiation, apart from the reactions to injury. Further, the claims for the effectiveness of this empirical procedure are based on uncontrolled Studies (ISRAEL 1952, KAPLAN 1957. Indeed, jEFFCOATE (1952) of Liverpool pointed to a spontaneous cure rate of about 60 % for similarly selected cases of amenorrhoea, even of some years' standing, in women of less than 30 years of age.…”

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Genetic Hazards of Radiation to Man; Part II

Bellefeuille¹

1961

Acta Radiologica

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The first part of the present paper was published recently (DE BELLEFEUILLE 1961) in this journal. Existing levels~of radiationIn the estimation of genetic hazards, attempts are made to establish the amount, spread over the whole population, received by the human testis or ovary from conception to the age of 30 years, by which time one-half of all offspring have been procreated, Natural radiation from the ground, from cosmic rays and from potassium 40 in human tissues represents a 30-year gonad dose of the order of 3 r (MRC Report) to 4.3 r (see: 'Genetic Effects of Atomic Radiation'). It is in the light of this estimate that one may appraise the significance of man-made radiation impinging upon human germ plasm.Fall-out from test detonations of nuclear weapons consists of a large number of radio-nuclides liberated into the atmosphere . These present a two-fold genetic danger. External radiation comes to the gonads from the ground; internal radiation is due to isotopes which are incorporated into human tissues. Of these, the bone-seekers (strontium 89 and 90, plutonium 239) emit short-range p-particles; they are thus much less significant in terms of genetic effects than in relation to the induction of leukaemia and bone

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