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For many tissues the risk increases with increasing

doses in the dose range used for lymphomas

Exception: thyroid cancer has bell-shaped dose-risk

curve, linear up to 29 Gy, then decreasing

There is no safe dose level

Doses to all organs should be kept ALARA

Second malignancies