NEW BRIEFING PAPER FROM NIRS: ATOMIC RADIATION IS MORE HARMFUL TO WOMEN
Nuclear Information & Resource Service
October 18, 2011
For Immediate Release
Excerpt: Women as a group suffer significantly more from the impact of ionizing radiation than do men. Today Nuclear Information and Resource Service published a Briefing Paper that focuses on a dramatic fifty-percent greater incidence of cancer and fifty-percent greater rate of death from cancer among women, compared to the same radiation dose level to men. To be clear: males suffer cancer and cancer death from exposure to ionizing radiation; but gender difference in the level of harm has been to date underreported.
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