Sentences with phrase «of radiation risk»

I should provide the missing viewpoints, for instance those who argue that the LNT [«Linear No Threshold» model of radiation risk] underestimates the risk at low doses, and I should provide the reasons that BEIR VII did not accept this view, showing that BEIR VII takes a middle ground.

Finally, for a thorough look at the film's potential value in breaking through the emotion - laden reactions many of us bring to discussions of radiation risk, read the laudatory Scientific American post by David Ropeik, a longtime risk analyst and risk communication consultant.

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.

Many patients are ignorant of the radiation risks inherent in certain types of medical scan tests, a survey finds.

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Its ordinarily limited radioactivity makes plutonium safe for terrorists or other thieves to transport with little risk of radiation injury.

Those close to the recipients — caregivers, coworkers, loved ones — might also be at risk of radiation poisoning.

California's department of public health suggested that people who want to reduce their risk of radiation exposure could take the following steps:

«Financial markets have been rattled by the growing risk posed by potential radiation leaks at the stricken nuclear power plants in Japan,» said Lee Hardman, an analyst at The Bank of Tokyo - Mitsubishi UFJ.

There is a much greater risk of radiation by getting a mammogram or an X-ray.

They have many health benefits such as preventing diabetes, reducing risk of cancer, protecting DNA from radiation harm, reducing signs of aging, facilitating digestion, boosting oral health, and lowering the risk of cardiovascular disease.

I've been known to make things in the microwave instead of on the stovetop because I'd rather risk radiation exposure than clean a pot.

While a standard treatment wouldhave been radiation, Nichols and his colleague Scott Shapiro agreed that byexcising the lesions instead, they would run a much smaller risk of damaginghis cycling career.

And in women who have been treated for breast cancer, a history of radiation therapy is also associated with increased risk of heart disease.

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From France to China to San Francisco, governments worldwide are taking the emerging evidence of public health risks from everyday radiation seriously.

Women who have experienced some type of breast injury (burning, trauma, through radiation therapy, congenital defect, etc.) are also at greater risk for many of the same reasons stated above.

While they are superior in quality of sound and vision than analog monitors, they carry the possible risk of exposure to electromagnetic radiation to your baby and may not be something everyone would choose for baby safety or to babyproof their home.

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We live in such a high - tech world and kids are exposed to so much now that I don't want my baby monitor to be another source of potential radiation risk.

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Many of the known risk factors of cancer — all cancers — are the same: smoking or any use of tobacco or nicotine products; exposure to radiation; infection; sunlight; genetic factors; hormones; and aging.

Senator Charles J. Fuschillo said, Research has shown that indoor UV tanning can be potentially dangerous; it greatly increases the risk of developing skin cancer and exposes skin to UV radiation that is far more intense than what the sun produces.

The AAD also advises the public to steer clear of tanning beds, a source of artificial UV radiation that increases the risk of melanoma, especially in women 45 and younger.

Ultraviolet radiation from the sun and artificial sources is the most preventable risk factor for all forms of skin cancer, including melanoma.

However, reduced radiation was also associated with a slightly increased risk of disease recurrence.

Along the way, according to a 2013 study, you'd get dosed with the radiation equivalent of a whole - body CT scan every five to six days, increasing your lifetime cancer risk above the limits set by NASA.

A lightning storm can trigger an atmospheric nuclear reaction that leads to the production of antimatter and radiation, which may pose health risks

At the time of the Curies» achievement, the health risks of radiation exposure weren't known.

Miscarriage occurred in 10.4 percent of the women with the lowest measured exposure level (1st quartile) of magnetic field non-ionizing radiation on a typical day, and in 24.2 percent of the women with the higher measured exposure level (2nd, 3rd and 4th quartiles), a nearly three times higher relative risk.

We also have tendencies to conform our opinions to those of the groups we identify with, to fear man - made risks more than we fear natural ones, and to believe that events causing dread — the technical term for risks that could result in particularly painful or gruesome deaths, like plane crashes and radiation burns — are inherently more risky than other events.

A study of real - world exposure to non-ionizing radiation from magnetic fields in pregnant women found a significantly higher rate of miscarriage, providing new evidence regarding their potential health risks.

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

Assuming that the values and parameters for speed, radiation dose and risk stated above for Stuker are also true for you, dividing your total miles by 3,700,000,000 will give your approximate odds of getting cancer from your flying time.

However, delaying radiation therapy offers no protective benefit and in fact may increase the risk of GI complications,» Showalter said.

Dr. Li noted that the potential health risk of magnetic - field non-ionizing radiation needs more research.

As he puts it «some of the risks in labs are quite specialised — few people get the chance to work with exotic chemicals, biological agents, GMOs, radiation, etc..»

«Urologists tend to prefer to forgo adjuvant radiation therapy, because they fear the side effects, and radiation oncologists tend to prefer offering adjuvant radiation therapy because they fear the risk of metastasis [cancer spreading to other sites in the body],» Showalter said.

(As I explain in my book «Strange Glow: The Story of Radiation,» a millisievert or mSv is a unit of radiation dose that can be used to estimate cancer risk.)

Using data from a randomized trial of 206 men treated with either radiation or, radiation and six months of hormonal therapy, researchers compared early markers of prostate cancer death to identify men at risk of dying early.

Studies of atomic bomb victims, nuclear workers and medical radiation patients have allowed scientists to estimate the cancer risk for any particular radiation dose.

For men with intermediate risk prostate cancer, side effects at two years following radiation therapy (RT) were comparable for extremely - hypofractionated treatment, which was delivered in seven fractions across two and a half weeks, and conventional treatment of 39 fractions across eight weeks, according to research presented at the 58th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO).

Articles made comparisons to mundane, low - level forms of radiation; defined the risks as unknowable, given the lack of long - term studies; and largely excluded concerns expressed by experts and residents who challenged the dominant narrative.

And, CT imaging comes with a radiation exposure that itself carries risks, while MRI scans are more costly and have a higher chance of finding things that turn out to be of no concern.

Previous studies also demonstrate that moderate hypo - fractionated radiation therapy (HRT), consisting of daily treatment for one month using a larger dose per treatment, provides a similar low risk of recurrence, and may even be lower with HRT than CRT.

When this radiation impacts biological cells, it can cause an increased risk of cancer.

«These findings suggest that many men with intermediate risk prostate cancer can be well managed with seed implant alone and do not require the addition of external beam radiation,» said Bradley Prestidge, MD, lead author of the study and Medical Director of the Bon Secours Cancer Institute at DePaul Medical Center in Norfolk, Virginia.

Even as far away as Mars, one of the instruments aboard the Odyssey spacecraft — an instrument designed to assess radiation risk to humans — was damaged.

«Our results provide evidence for clinicians to consider HRT as compared with CRT as a preferred radiation treatment in men with intermediate - risk prostate cancer and at low risk of other complications,» stated Trevor Royce, MD, MPH, radiation oncologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital and first author of the study.

The potential risks — and benefits — of solar radiation management (SRM) are substantial.

These events — even more than the use of nuclear weapons at the end of World War II — launched an ongoing public debate over whether the risks of radiation exposure outweigh the benefits of nuclear technology.