Radiation Health Risk Sciences

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XXXV

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2. Overview of the Global COE Program

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Global Strategic Center for Radiation Health Risk Control

      • Shunichi Yamashita

      Pages 3-10

3. Overview of the Lectures

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11

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   2. Discussion on Points of Radiation Safety and the Scope of The University of Tokyo Global COE Program

      • Toshiso Kosako, Takeshi Iimoto

      Pages 13-22

   3. Network System for Radiation Emergency Medicine in Japan and the Role of Hiroshima University

      • Kenji Kamiya

      Pages 23-28

   4. Non-DNA-Targeted Effects and Low-Dose Radiation Risk

      • Barry D. Michael

      Pages 29-33

   5. Update from the Chernobyl Tissue Bank: Effect of Latency on Different Types of Thyroid Cancer Post-Chernobyl

      • Gerry A. Thomas

      Pages 34-42

   6. Current Risk Estimate of Radiation-Related Cancer and Our Insight into the Future

      • Michiaki Kai, Nobuhiko Ban

      Pages 43-48

4. Atomic Bomb Disease Medicine

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 49-49

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   2. Introduction of Atomic Bomb Disease Medical Research in Global COE Program

      • Kunihiro Tsukasaki, Masahiro Nakashima, Naoki Matsuda

      Pages 51-56

   3. The Offspring of Atomic Bomb Survivors: Cancer and Non-Cancer Mortality and Cancer Incidence

      • Akihiko Suyama, Shizue Izumi, Kojiro Koyama, Ritsu Sakata, Nobuo Nishi, Midori Soda et al.

      Pages 57-62

   4. Ischemic Heart Disease Among Atomic Bomb Survivors: Possible Mechanism(s) Linking Ischemic Heart Disease and Radiation Exposure

      • Masazumi Akahoshi

      Pages 63-68

   5. Leukemia, Lymphoma, and Multiple Myeloma Incidence in the LSS Cohort: 1950–2001

      • Wan-Ling Hsu, Midori Soda, Nobuo Nishi, Dale Preston, Sachiyo Funamoto, Masao Tomonaga et al.

      Pages 69-73

   6. Follow-Up Study of 78 Healthy Exposed Atomic Bomb Survivors for 35 Years in Hiroshima, with Special Reference to Multiple Cancers

      • Nanao Kamada

      Pages 74-78

5. International Radiation Health Sciences

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 79-79

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   2. Research Activities and Projects Within a Framework of International Radiation Health Sciences Research

      • Noboru Takamura, Akira Ohtsuru, Hiroki Ozawa, Shunichi Yamashita

      Pages 81-89

   3. Age and Prognosis: Do Adjuvant Therapies Influence the Real Prognosis?

      • Robert C.F. Leonard, Mariko Morishita, Gerry A. Thomas

      Pages 90-94

   4. Mortality of the Chernobyl Emergency Workers: Analysis of Dose Response by Cohort Studies Covering Follow-Up Period of 1992–2006

      • Victor K. Ivanov, Sergey Yu Chekin, Valery V. Kashcheyev, Marat A. Maksioutov, Anatoly F. Tsyb

      Pages 95-102

   5. Twenty Years After Chernobyl: Implications for Radiation Health Risk Control

      • Yoshisada Shibata

      Pages 103-112

Radiation safety and risk management, a critical issue in the nuclear age, is an ongoing concern in the field of radiation health risk sciences. It is the particular mission and task of the Nagasaki University Global COE program to explore human health risks from radiation on a global scale and to come up with measures for overcoming its negative legacies. Ionizing radiation is a well-documented human cancer risk factor, and long-term health consequences in individuals exposed at a young age to such events as the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombing are now being followed up. Unique and comprehensive, this book introduces updated radiation health-related issues, including the proper collection and analysis of biological samples, cancer research, psychological effects, fair disclosure, and the effects of low-dose exposure as they apply to future public health policy. Also addressed is the need for emergency radiation medicine in case of accidents.

• Public Health
• Tumor
• biopsy
• fluorescence
• public health policy

From the reviews: “This book, the proceedings from a 2008 international symposium hosted by the center, outlines proper collection and analysis of biological samples, the role and significance of radiation-pertinent cancer research, the significance of psychological effects, and a host of other topics including the need for emergency radiation medicine given the occurrence of an accident. … The book has an obvious audience among protective specialists. … the audience is considerably broader and likely encompasses clinicians, researchers, and practitioners.” (J. Thomas Pierce, Doody’s Review Service, December, 2009)

• Tissue and Histopathology Section, Atomic Bomb Disease Institute, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan

  Masahiro Nakashima

• Department of Radiation Epidemiology, Atomic Bomb Disease Institute, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan

  Noboru Takamura

• Department of Molecular Medicine and Hematology, Atomic Bomb Disease Institute, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan

  Kunihiro Tsukasaki

• Department of Medical Gene Technology, Atomic Bomb Disease Institute, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan

  Yuji Nagayama

• Department of Molecular Medicine Atomic Bomb Disease Institute, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan

  Shunichi Yamashita

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