Radiation

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Fear of radiation

For cancer risks of men and women:
http://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancerbasics/lifetime-probability-of-developing-or-dying-from-cancer.

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Iodine-131

Here are two useful papers on thyroid cancer from exposure to iodine-131 released in atomic bomb tests at the Nevada Test Site:
http://www.senes.com/Thyroid.Doses.Final.Report.pdf
http://www.cancer.gov/i131/fallout/contents.html

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Ultraviolet radiation (UV)

For more information on UV radiations and skin cancer, see:
http://www.skincancer.org/prevention/uva-and-uvb

For additional information on cases of skin cancer world-wide, go to:
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs305/en/index.html

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Lung cancer screening

To learn more, go to:

http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/screening/lung/HealthProfessional/page1

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.3322/caac.21177/pdf

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Mammograms

For details on mammograms, go to:
http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/detection/mammograms

To learn more about the controversy surrounding mammograms, go to:
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1206809
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/28/ignoring-the-science-on-mammograms/

http://articles.latimes.com/2009/aug/17/health/he-breast-overdiagnosis17

For an article on the Effect of three decades of screening mammography on breast-cancer incidence, go to:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=N%20Engl%20J%20Med%20367%3A1998-2005%2C%202012

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How Does Radiation Cause Cancer?

For an overview of radiation’s relation to cancer, see:
http://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancercauses/othercarcinogens/medicaltreatments/radiation-exposure-and-cancer

http://hss.energy.gov/HealthSafety/ohre/roadmap/achre/intro_9_5.html

For new thinking on the role of “junk” DNA in cancer, see:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/06/science/far-from-junk-dna-dark-matter-proves-crucial-to-health.html

For the effects of low-dose radiation, go to:
http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=11340&pag

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