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The effect of dose fractionation on predicted ERR. As the same total radiation dose is split into fractions (one fraction per day, with gaps on weekends), thereby protracting it over a longer time, predicted cancer risk grows because cell repopulation during prolonged exposure partially compensates for cell killing by radiation. Plausible parameter values guided by model fits to available data were used.
