Environmental Sciences Division Annual Progress Report For Period Ending

Advances in Radiation Biology, Volume 10, provides an overview of the state of knowledge in the field of radiation biology. The book contains seven chapters and opens with a study on DNA repair phenomena that have been explored through the use of viruses as probes. This is followed by separate chapters on the behavior of the long-lived synthetic elements and their natural analogs in food chains; the physical and clinical basis for the use of ultrasound to induce local hyperthermia in human tumors; and the role of pH changes in the etiology of thermal cell killing and the potential of low pH as an adjuvant to hyperthermia. Subsequent chapters deal with the effects of accelerated heavy charged particles on various normal tissue systems; the effect of ionizing radiations on connective tissue; and solid tumor response to combined radiotherapy and chemotherapy.