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A consistent two-mutation model of bone cancer for two data sets of radium-injected beagles

H Bijwaard, M J P Brugmans and H P Leenhouts

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A two-mutation carcinogenesis model has been applied to model osteosarcoma incidence in two data sets of beagles injected with 226Ra. Taking age-specific retention into account, the following results have been obtained: (1) a consistent and well-fitting solution for all age and dose groups, (2) mutation rates that are linearly dependent on dose rate, with an exponential decrease for the second mutation at high dose rates, (3) a linear-quadratic dose-effect relationship, which indicates that care should be taken when extrapolating linearly, (4) highest cumulative incidences for injection at young adult age, and highest risks for injection doses of a few kBq kg-1 at these ages, and (5) when scaled appropriately, the beagle model compares fairly well with a description for radium dial painters, suggesting that a consistent model description of bone cancer induction in beagles and humans may be possible.


PACS

87.19.X- Diseases

87.17.Ee Growth and division

Subjects

Medical physics

Biological physics

Dates

Issue 3A (September 2002)

Received 17 February 2002

Published 4 September 2002



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