Radiation Book » cancer http://radiationbook.com What it is, what you need to know. A new book by Robert Peter Gale, M.D., and Eric Lax Sun, 18 Aug 2024 22:37:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Fear of radiation http://radiationbook.com/fear-of-radiation/ http://radiationbook.com/fear-of-radiation/#comments Thu, 17 Jan 2013 00:18:27 +0000 iwriteplays http://radiationbook.com/?p=111 For cancer risks of men and women:
http://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancerbasics/lifetime-probability-of-developing-or-dying-from-cancer.

]]> http://radiationbook.com/fear-of-radiation/feed/ 0 Iodine-131 http://radiationbook.com/iodine-131/ http://radiationbook.com/iodine-131/#comments Tue, 15 Jan 2013 04:13:08 +0000 iwriteplays http://radiationbook.com/?p=144 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

]]> http://radiationbook.com/iodine-131/feed/ 0 Ultraviolet radiation (UV) http://radiationbook.com/ultraviolet-radiation-uv/ http://radiationbook.com/ultraviolet-radiation-uv/#comments Tue, 15 Jan 2013 04:11:24 +0000 iwriteplays http://radiationbook.com/?p=139 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

]]> http://radiationbook.com/ultraviolet-radiation-uv/feed/ 0 Lung cancer screening http://radiationbook.com/lung-cancer-screening/ http://radiationbook.com/lung-cancer-screening/#comments Thu, 17 Jan 2013 04:18:42 +0000 iwriteplays http://radiationbook.com/?p=158 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

]]> http://radiationbook.com/lung-cancer-screening/feed/ 0 Mammograms http://radiationbook.com/mammograms/ http://radiationbook.com/mammograms/#comments Thu, 17 Jan 2013 04:19:30 +0000 iwriteplays http://radiationbook.com/?p=160 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

]]> http://radiationbook.com/mammograms/feed/ 0 How Does Radiation Cause Cancer? http://radiationbook.com/how-does-radiation-cause-cancer/ http://radiationbook.com/how-does-radiation-cause-cancer/#comments Thu, 17 Jan 2013 04:10:32 +0000 iwriteplays http://radiationbook.com/?p=137 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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