Treatment of Radiostrontium Intoxication in Mice
- 1 January 1962
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in International Journal of Radiation Biology and Related Studies in Physics, Chemistry and Medicine
- Vol. 5 (5) , 477-484
- https://doi.org/10.1080/09553006214551101
Abstract
(1) The feeding of a phosphorus-deficient diet to mice starting two days after injection of 90Sr, significantly reduced bone-tumour frequency and increased survival-time. (2) Evaluation of the relation of total radiation dose and of dose-rate to tumour frequency suggests that dose-rate is not the major determinant of bone-tumour incidence. The interpretation is compatible with an indirect carcinogenesis by radiation through primary tissue damage. (3) No conclusions can be drawn about the practical applicability of this treatment to accidental 90Sr intoxication in man.Keywords
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