Abstract:Radioactivity and radiation-induced mutations are believed to be primary causal examples of cancer-initiating events (stimulus). The assumption that an increase in cancer risk develops from any amount of radiation gave rise to the linear no-threshold model. This also led to the assumption that cancer is caused by somatic mutations as described by the somatic mutation theory. Against this backdrop, in actuality only ~5%-10% of cancers result from somatic mutations or its various modifications, while ~80% of can… Show more
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