Friday, February 7, 2014

Welcome to Mohan Doss's Home Page

Welcome to Mohan Doss's Blog Home Page

List of Publications (and manuscripts accepted for publication) on Health Effects of Low Dose Radiation
  1. Comments on "Studies of the mortality of atomic bomb survivors, Report 14, 1950-2003: an overview of cancer and noncancer diseases" (Radiat Res 2012; 177:229-43). M. Doss, B. L. Egleston and S. Litwin, Radiat Res 178, 244-245 (2012). Available at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3662863/
  2. Evidence Supporting Radiation Hormesis in Atomic Bomb Survivor Cancer Mortality Data. M. Doss, Dose Response. 10, 584-592 (2012).  Available at: http://dose-response.metapress.com/link.asp?id=r3158310701545m5
  3. Shifting the Paradigm in Radiation Safety. M. Doss, Dose Response. 10, 562-583 (2012). Available at: http://dose-response.metapress.com/link.asp?id=a35338004706373w
  4. The importance of adaptive response in cancer prevention and therapy, M. Doss, Medical Physics, 40, 032302 (2013). Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1118/1.4773027
  5. Linear No-Threshold Model vs. Radiation Hormesis, M. Doss, Dose Response. 11, 480–497 (2013). Available at:  http://dose-response.metapress.com/link.asp?id=c577154j89t86l81
  6. No Increased Risk of Cancer from CT Scans, M. Doss, American Journal of Roentgenology, 2014;202:W410. 10.2214/AJR.13.11525. Available at: http://www.ajronline.org/doi/full/10.2214/AJR.13.11525
  7. Linear No-Threshold Model May Not Be Appropriate for Estimating Cancer Risk from CT, Mohan Doss, Radiology Jan 2014, Vol. 270, No. 1:307–308. Available at: http://pubs.rsna.org/doi/pdf/10.1148/radiol.13131661
  8. Conclusion of Increased Risk of Cataracts Associated with CT Scans of the Head May Not be Justified, M. Doss, American Journal of Roentgenology, 2014;202:W413-W. 10.2214/AJR.13.11867. Available at: http://www.ajronline.org/doi/full/10.2214/AJR.13.11867
  9. Low Dose Radiation Adaptive Protection to Control Neurodegenerative Diseases, M. Doss, Dose-Response, 12:277–287, 2014, Available at:  http://dose-response.metapress.com/link.asp?id=m665004074w5xl13
  10. Correcting Systemic Deficiencies in our Scientific Infrastructure, M.Doss, Dose-Response, 12:185–201, 2014,  Available at: http://dose-response.metapress.com/link.asp?id=11h3l8t067886g08
  11. Commentary: Ethical Issues of Current Health-Protection Policies on Low-Dose Ionizing Radiation, Yehoshua Socol, Ludwik Dobrzyński, Mohan Doss, Ludwig E. Feinendegen, Marek K. Janiak, Mark L. Miller, Charles L. Sanders, Bobby R. Scott, Brant Ulsh, Alexander Vaiserman, Dose Response. 12:342-8,2013. Available at: http://dose-response.metapress.com/link.asp?id=pl8x435l31602846
  12. Adoption of Linear No-Threshold Model Violated Basic Scientific Principles and Was Harmful, Mohan Doss, Archives of Toxicology, 2014, 88(3):849-52, Available at: http://rd.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs00204-014-1208-8.pdf
  13. Comment on "NAIRAS aircraft radiation model development, dose climatology, and initial validation" by Christopher J. Mertens, Matthias M. Meier, Steven Brown, Ryan B. Norman, and Xiaojing Xu", Yehoshua Socol,  Jerry M. Cuttler,  Ludwik Dobrzyński,  Mohan Doss,  Ludwig E. Feinendegen,  Krzysztof W. Fornalski,  Marek K. Janiak,  Mark L. Miller,  Kanokporn Noy Rithidech,  Charles L. Sanders,  Bobby R. Scott,  Brant Ulsh,  Alexander Vaiserman,  and James Welsh, Space Weather, 12, 120–121, 2014. Available at: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/enhanced/doi/10.1002/2013SW001021/
  14. Addition of diagnostic CT scan does not increase the cancer risk in patients undergoing SPECT studies, Mohan Doss, European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, 2014. Available at: http://nuclearmedicineandmolecularimaginggateway.net/ArticlePage.aspx?DOI=10.1007/s00259-014-2711-0
  15. Radiation doses from radiological imaging do not increase the risk of cancer.  Letter to the editor regarding the article by Brenner: “What we know and what we don't know about cancer risks associated with radiation doses from radiological imaging", Mohan Doss, British Journal of Radiology, 2014;87:20140085. Available at: http://www.birpublications.org/doi/full/10.1259/bjr.20140085
  16. Radiation Dose Justification and Optimization Should Not be Applied to Medical Imaging in Emergency Medicine -  (Letter to the Editor regarding "Sierzenski, et al. Applications of justification and optimization in medical imaging: examples of clinical guidance for computed tomography use in emergency medicine. Ann Emerg Med. Jan 2014;63(1):25-32.), Mohan Doss, Annals of Emergency Medicine, Sep 2014;64(3):332–333.  Available at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0196064414005174.
  17. CT Radiation Dose Optimization is Not Advisable in View of Current Knowledge, Mohan Doss, J Am Coll Radiol. 2014;11:745-6. Available at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1546144014001550.
  18. Atomic Bomb Survivor Cataract Surgery Prevalence Data are Consistent with Non-zero Threshold Dose - Comment on Article by Nakashima et al. 2013, Mohan Doss, Brian L. Egleston, Samuel Litwin, Health Phys. 2014 Sep;107(3):262-3. Available at: http://journals.lww.com/health-physics/Citation/2014/09000/Atomic_Bomb_Survivor_Cataract_Surgery_Prevalence.11.aspx .
  19. Point/Counterpoint: Low-dose radiation is beneficial, not harmful, Mohan Doss, Medical Physics, 41, 070601 (2014). Available at: http://scitation.aip.org/content/aapm/journal/medphys/41/7/10.1118/1.4881095


My Blogs on Health Effects of Low Dose Radiation:

Copy of Open Letter from SARI to Professional Bodies:
An Open Letter to Professional Bodies Regarding Low Dose Radiation Cancer Risk
http://open-let-prof-bodies-ldr-ca-risk.blogspot.com/

Adoption of Linear No-Threshold Model Violated Basic Scientific Principles and Was Harmful
http://adoption-of-lnt-model-was-harmful.blogspot.com/

A Line-by-line Criticism of New York Times Op-Ed "We Are Giving Ourselves Cancer"
http://are-we-really-giving-ourselves-cancer.blogspot.com/

An Analysis of 15 Country study of radiation workers
http://15-country-study-rad-workers-analysis.blogspot.com/

An Analysis of Breast Cancer Mortality Following Fluoroscopy in TB patients
http://miller-breast-cancer-study.blogspot.com/


An Analysis of the Recent Update to Atomic Bomb Survivor Cancer Mortality Data
http://lss-14-report-analysis.blogspot.com/

The Deadly DNA Damage
http://dossreport.blogspot.com/

Doss Report #2: The Deadly DNA Damage
http://dossreport2.blogspot.com/

Radiation doses from radiological imaging do not increase the risk of cancer
http://rad-doses-imaging-dont-cause-cancer.blogspot.com/

Linear No-Threshold Model May Not Be Appropriate for Estimating Cancer Risk from CT
http://lnt-model-not-good-for-cancer-from-ct.blogspot.com/

Addition of diagnostic CT scan does not increasethe cancer risk in patients undergoing SPECT studies
http://add-diag-ct-doesnt-inc-ca-risk-spect.blogspot.com/

Evidence for Threshold Dose-Response or for Radiation Hormesis in Human Studies 
http://evidence-for-threshold-or-hormesis.blogspot.com/

Radon vs Lung Cancer in Irelend
http://radon-vs-lung-cancer-in-ireland.blogspot.com/