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Suggested link between radon and skin cancer
A new study published this week suggests that a link may exist between radon exposure and non-melanoma skin cancer.
Nov 14, 2011 |
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Largest study on cellphones, cancer finds no link
(AP) -- Danish researchers can offer some reassurance if you're concerned about your cellphone: Don't worry. Your device is probably safe.
Oct 21, 2011 |
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Big Tobacco knew radioactive particles in cigarettes posed cancer risk but kept quiet
Tobacco companies knew that cigarette smoke contained radioactive alpha particles for more than four decades and developed "deep and intimate" knowledge of these particles' cancer-causing potential, but they deliberately ...
Sep 28, 2011 |
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Canada's Cancer Risk Management model is an important new health tool for policymakers
If Canada's smoking rates were cut by half to an average national rate of 11% within five years, it would result in 35,900 fewer cases of lung cancer by 2030 and save $656 million in treatment costs, according to analysis ...
Jul 06, 2011 |
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Experts say don't worry about radiation in US milk
(AP) -- So now Japan's radioactive fallout is showing up in milk on the U.S. West Coast. Not to worry, though. It turns out that traces of radioactivity are in many foods we eat, the air we breathe and the ...
Apr 01, 2011 |
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We all live with low-level radiation; how harmful is it?
Don't worry too much about the hint of radiation reaching U.S. shores from the damaged nuclear reactors in Japan, experts say.
Mar 29, 2011 |
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Accurate measurement of radioactive thoron possible at last
Annette Rottger and her scientific team managed to do something that was previously thought to be impossible: they developed a primary standard for the measurement of short-lived radioactive thoron.
Mar 07, 2011 |
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34 percent of Galician secondary schools exceed maximum recommended radon levels
Researchers from the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC) have analysed levels of radon, a natural radioactive gas, in 58 secondary schools in Galicia. The results show that 34% of these schools exceed ...
Dec 21, 2010 |
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Unique radiation-responsive proteins affected by low doses of ionizing radiation
In the most comprehensive analysis of its type published to date, scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have found that exposing human skin tissue cells, or fibroblasts, to low doses of ionizing ...
Dec 17, 2010 |
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Some patients cured by outpatient lung cancer treatment
Many patients with early-stage lung cancers are candidates for a new radiation-only treatment regimen that rarely has side effects and results in a cure in up to 80 percent of patients who have had it.
Dec 17, 2010 |
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