Sentences with phrase «if radiation risks»

So even if radiation risks are low, «people are still worried,» he says.

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But all of these medical imaging methods include some risk of radiation and take hours — if not days — to get results.

In addition, if the melted nuclear fuel proves bad enough — like Chernobyl's lethal mass of molten core known as the «elephant's foot» — it will have to be entombed for a number of years rather than removed, because of radiation risk from what is essentially a cooled shell of ceramic armor surrounding a highly radioactive core that remains hot and is still undergoing radioactive decay.

Beyond those concerns, if prostate cancer is confirmed, the risks inherent in treatment options such as surgery, radiation or hormonal alteration, can be «truly life altering,» he said.

«The currently available evidence indicates that the potential risks to public health from exposure to emissions associated with the shale gas extraction process are low if operations are properly run and regulated,» said John Harrison, director of PHE's center for radiation, chemical and environmental hazards.

«If we can identify similar genetic loci in people, and if we could find biomarkers for these gene - environment interactions, then perhaps we could develop a simple blood test that identifies people who are at high risk of cancer from low - dose radiation,» says MaIf we can identify similar genetic loci in people, and if we could find biomarkers for these gene - environment interactions, then perhaps we could develop a simple blood test that identifies people who are at high risk of cancer from low - dose radiation,» says Maif we could find biomarkers for these gene - environment interactions, then perhaps we could develop a simple blood test that identifies people who are at high risk of cancer from low - dose radiation,» says Mao.

But, if a child is classified as high - risk, the survival rate falls to approximately 50 percent even with an aggressive treatment plan that includes high - dose chemotherapy, surgery, stem cell transplant, radiation and immunotherapy.

If ozone doesn't return to normal levels, the risk of developing skin cancer and cataracts increases from the increased levels of UV radiation that will reach the Earth.

People who've had radiation treatment to their chest (usually for another type of cancer), also have a higher risk for lung cancer, even if they've never smoked.

If you're concerned about the radiation, although it's far less exposure than a nuclear stress test or heart catheterization, take an antioxidant vitamin pack 45 minutes before the CT to reduce the DNA risk by 50 %.

And for a vegan bodybuilder who must unfortunatelly play tetris with the food sources that he choses in order to give to his body the right ammounts of aminos, restricting SPI and soy foods so much does not make his goal any easier.There are sometimes that you need a meal thats complete with aminos and soy provides that meal with the additional benefits of lacking the saturated fats trans cholesterol and other endothelium inflammatory factors.I'm not saying that someone should go all the way to 200gr of SPI everyday or consuming a kilo of soy everyday but some servings of soy now and then even every day or the use of SPI which helps in positive nitrogen balance does not put you in the cancer risk team, thats just OVERexaggeration.Exercise, exposure to sunlight, vegan diet or for those who can not something as close to vegan diet, fruits and vegetables which contains lots of antioxidants and phtochemicals, NO STRESS which is the global killer, healthy social relationships, keeping your cortisol and adrenaline levels down (except the necessary times), good sleep and melatonin function, clean air, no radiation, away from procceced foods and additives like msg etc and many more that i can not even remember is the key to longevity.As long as your immune system is functioning well and your natural killer cells TP53 gene and many other cancer inhibitors are good and well, no cancer will ever show his face to you.With that logic we shouldn't eat ANY ammount of protein and we should go straight to be breatharians living only with little water and sunlight exposure cause you like it or not the raise of IGF1 is inevitable i know that raise the IGF1 sky high MAYBE is not the best thing but we are not talking about external hormones and things like this.Stabby raccoon also has a point.And even if you still worry about the consumption of soy... http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21711174.

If you were exposed to a certain amount of radiation as a child, you are at increased risk for thyroid cancer.

Alternatively, radiation therapy can be used to temporarily «dry up» the stinky leaking gland, especially if the cancer poses too great an anesthetic risk for tumor removal.

Although radiation leakage has been reported, the reactor core containment is said still to be intact, But if the cooling operation is not successful then there is a risk that, aside from the (hopefully low) possibility of a explosion as at Chernobyl, or a hydrogen explosion (as was feared at one time at Three Mile Island in the USA), melting fuel could burn through the core and the floor of the reactor building and enter the soil, a risk that would be heightened if the floor structure was cracked by the earthquake.

A reactor accident at Diablo Canyon would immediately put tens, if not hundreds of thousands, of people in Central California at risk from radiation exposure.

Prof David Keith from Harvard University was the only presenter to address the controversial topic of solar radiation management (SRM), hypothesising that if the technology could be used to offset half of the growth in human - caused radiative forcing, it could substantially reduce the aggregated risks of climate change.

If all these many studies show that the risk from medical imaging with CT scans and similar high radiation technologies is real but acceptable, what are the chances that the risk from a few x-rays is massive and unacceptable and worthy of a rant - filled, conspiracy - filled book and web page?