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The take - home message, says Mothersill, is that bystander effects occur in living organisms, and thus should be taken into account when determining radiation risks in humans and other animals.

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However, heavy phone users who want to reduce their exposure to RF radiation in case future research reveals new risks can consider using a headset.

«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.

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.

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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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.

There are other risks, too, like radiation exposure and potentially problematic behavioural problems in the future.

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.

The radiation produced was acutely dangerous in local areas, and caused cancer risks downwind, but the overall effects were dwarfed by many other man - made disasters.

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.

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.

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

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.)

Newly discovered aerial zones where radiation levels inexplicably spike could in future require flight diversions to avoid health risks

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).

«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.

Dana Christensen, associate lab director for energy and engineering at ORNL, says that health risks from radiation in coal by - products are low.

«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.

Ms Alice Koechlin, from the International Prevention Research Institute in Lyon, France, told the meeting that people who were at highest risk of dying from melanoma were those born between 1900 and 1960 when not only were the dangerous effects of exposure to ultraviolet (UV) radiation from sunlight largely unknown, but also health professionals believed that sunshine was positively beneficial.

Threats of explosions and dangerously high radiation doses are just some of the risks facing workers trying to avert complete meltdowns at multiple reactors in Japan

In fact, the study finds, over 5,700 additional patients ended up having such procedures — called coronary angiography — during the shortage, exposed them to more risk and radiation.

The rest of this special News & Analysis section examines what we have learned about radiation risks from previous exposures (p. 1504), improvements in safety since the boiling water designs at Fukushima (p. 1506), what to do with the wrecked reactors (p. 1507), and damage to research facilities from the earthquake (p. 1509).

The early cleanup workers faced a higher dose, with the risk of acute radiation sickness, resulting in nausea, low blood cell counts and neurological issues.

More research, however, is needed to better characterize those intermediate - risk patients who can safely be monitored on a surveillance program,» said D. Andrew Loblaw, MD, a radiation oncologist at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto, Canada.

Hotspots of radiation from the nuclear disaster are still likely to cause localized, small increases in cancer risk, according to a new report by the World Health Organization

Ultimately, doctors might be able to reduce a person's risk for cancer by analyzing the levels and types of intestinal bacteria in the body, and then prescribing probiotics to replace or bolster the amount of bacteria with anti-inflammatory properties, said Robert Schiestl, professor of pathology, environmental health sciences and radiation oncology at UCLA and the study's senior author.

Geraldine Thomas, a radiation - health expert at Imperial College London, argues that the report's cancer risks are likely be overestimates, as its authors openly erred on the side of caution in various assumptions.

The report, drafted by a panel of international experts in radiation risks and public health, concluded that there was no additional cancer risk for the population in most of Japan — even most parts of Fukushima Prefecture — or in neighboring countries.

«It is likely that very few Americans will be killed directly, suffer radiation sickness, or even have a measurably increased risk for cancer from an attack,» Peter D. Zimmerman and Cheryl Loeb write in «Dirty Bombs: The Threat Revisited,» a report published by the Center for Technology and National Security Policy, National Defense University.

Optical imaging methods are rapidly becoming essential tools in biomedical science because they're noninvasive, fast, cost - efficient and pose no health risks since they don't use ionizing radiation.

In reply, chief cabinet secretary Yukio Edano told reporters that the situation did not «immediately require such action», although the levels of radiation might pose a risk «over the long term».

Many of the studies posed little risk, and helped in the development of new radiation therapies, the commission says.

«In general, the radiation - related risk of any imaging test to an individual patient is very small and, when the test is clinically appropriate, the benefits of the test typically far outweigh any potential risks,» Fazel said.

In the group of patients with aggressive, or high risk, prostate cancer, the average number of days from diagnosis to surgery or radiation treatment was 96 days for Caucasian patients, and 105 days for African American patients.

Among women diagnosed with early - stage breast cancer in California, the percentage undergoing a double mastectomy increased substantially between 1998 and 2011, although this procedure was not associated with a lower risk of death than breast - conserving surgery plus radiation, according to a study in the September 3 issue of JAMA.

«Radiation - related risk is one of the factors that should be considered in the decision to use cardiovascular imaging with ionizing radiation, particularly in younger patients in whom the potential risk of radiation exposure is thought to be higher,» Fazel said.

Brachytherapy is an extremely efficient and safe radiation oncology modality, and this trial shows that it can have a wider field of applicability than simply in very localised and low risk tumours when combined with other techniques — in this case, androgen deprivation therapy and external bean radiation therapy.»

Before undergoing heart imaging procedures involving radiation, healthcare providers should help patients understand why the procedure is needed and its potential benefits and risks, including risks related to radiation exposure, according to a new scientific statement in the American Heart Association's journal Circulation.

For most people, the risk of absorbing excess ionizing radiation comes mainly through breathing radon, a gas released by uranium and thorium in soils.

In each study, they found that reduced UVB radiation exposure and lower vitamin D levels were associated with higher risks of cancer.

• Currently, there is no radiation danger to residents of the U.S.. Although higher - than - normal radiation may well be detectable in the U.S., the amount poses no health risk.

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This is especially concerning because radiation therapy is increasingly being used after mastectomy as a way to further reduce the risk of the cancer returning in women with more aggressive or advanced disease.

R. S. Sharma, a public health specialist on the panel from the Indian Council of Medical Research, writes in the report that, «the hot tropical climate of the country, the low body mass index; low fat content of an average Indian as compared to European countries and high environmental concentration of radio frequency radiation may place Indians under risk of radio frequency radiation adverse effect.»

Understanding the risks of radiation and the other extreme environments of space flight «is critical to provide safe passage for human exploration to the moon and Mars,» says microbiologist Cheryl Nickerson of Arizona State University in Tempe.