A virtually safe dose (VSD) may be determined for those
carcinogen
A carcinogen is any substance, radionuclide, or radiation that promotes carcinogenesis (the formation of cancer). This may be due to the ability to damage the genome or to the disruption of cellular metabolic processes. Several radioactive substan ...
s not assumed to have a threshold. Virtually safe doses are calculated by regulatory agencies to represent the level of exposure to such carcinogenic agents at which an excess of cancers greater than that level accepted by society is not expected.
[Derelanko, M.J. and Hollinger, M.A. (Eds). CRC Handbook of Toxicology. 1995. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL.]
See also
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Dose-response relationship
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Linear no-threshold model
References
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