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Cadmium is widely distributed in our environment. The main sources for the intake of cadmium are food and smoking. The exposure to ionizing radiation is inevitable: there is the natural occurring radiation and the man made radiation. So, the interaction of both is obvious.
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Stephan, G., Oestreicher, U. (1990). The Combination Effect of Cadmium and X-Rays on Structural Chromosome Aberrations in Peripheral Lymphocytes. In: Seemayer, N.H., Hadnagy, W. (eds) Environmental Hygiene II. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-46712-7_16
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