WASHINGTON – Even very low doses of radiation pose a risk of cancer over a person’s lifetime, a National Academy of Sciences panel concluded yesterday. It rejected some scientists’ arguments that tiny ...
World War II ended with the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Those bombings and the late effects of radiation on the development of cancers in those “survivors” spurred scientific inquiry into the ...
A small prospective study from Taiwan showed that olfactory function begins to deteriorate at a radiation therapy dose of 22 Gy in patients with head and neck cancer. Only 17% of patients developed ...