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Offline Rennhack

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Stochastic effects
« on: Nov 28, 2005, 08:07 »
Effects that occur by chance, generally occurring without a threshold level of dose, whose probability is proportional to the dose and whose severity is independent of the dose. In the context of radiation protection, the main stochastic effects are cancer and genetic effects.

 


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