Radiation: For Some People A Way To Live Longer

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"We are just targeting the cancer cells and protecting normal tissue surrounding the cancer."(Gale Group) Yes it is harmful to the cells in our body and to the tissues but if it is used properly to treat the cancer then that isn't a factor. They just use it to kill only the cancer or harmful cells in our body they don't put radiation to the whole body only to certain place where the harmful cells are located. "In the same way that nuclear radiation's energy can kill some of the body's cells; it can also be used to kill cancerous tumors." (Gale Group) It is only for the use of harmful cells but if someone is exposed by it but not by a doctor it will kill the healthy and good cells and tissues in the body. The doctors only use it to help the person out and give them a chance at living their lives longer then they would without it. We just need to look at it and now that they are doing this to help out the patient and nothing more and wouldn't be doing it if it wasn't for the good of ...

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a chance of getting it just a lower chance. "There was no increased cancer in adjoining tissues which received less than 5 cGv radiation in 160,000 women exposed to high doses of radiation to the cervix." (Aurengo) This shows that there are studies that show that there really isn't much of an effect to a person that as a little bit of radiation to a good amount of radiation. So even though a lot of people think that oh if you get a bunch of radiation it is worse then a little but up to a certain point it's like getting the same amount of radiation. It's crazy how people just would assume that but without actually researching and learning more about the subject; but they just decided that ...

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