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 Radiation Information - November 23, 2008
| It's nice to have someone to talk with before going to bed but do not do it using your mobile phones at bedtime as it can cause insomnia, a new study shows. A new study conducted by researchers at the Edinburgh Sleep Center revealed that using mobile phones during bed times put your health at risk | | A recent study conducted by a team from Institute of Molecular Medicine at the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom revealed that survival rates among patients with bladder cancer are the same whether they were treated through radiotherapy or surgery. "Since bladder cancer is a disease of older people, radiotherapy will play an increasingly important role as the population ages, and this study encourages us to believe that such elderly patients will not be disadvantaged by having an alternative curative treatment," Dr. Anne Kiltie, lead author of the research published in the International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics, said in a statement | | The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is reviewing new data from two studies that provide further evidence of the risks of anemia drugs known as erythropoiesis-stimulating agents, or ESAs. The studies show that patients with breast or advanced cervical cancers who received ESAs to treat anemia caused by chemotherapy died sooner or had more rapid tumor growth than similar patients who didn't receive the anemia drug | | A safe form of electromagnetic radiation called "T-rays" may someday replace potentially dangerous and cumbersome X-ray detectors in airports and hospitals. T-rays, or terahertz radiation, detects and identifies more hazardous or illegal substances. It penetrates the human body by almost half a centimeter, detects skin and breast cancers and images dental patients' teeth | | As experts estimated that around 20 percent of the working population in well-off nations work night shifts, a theory implies that graveyard shifts might raise people's cancer threat. The idea originally dismissed as "wacky" is now receiving massive recognition. The International Agency for Research on Cancer, the World Health Organization's back-up for cancer, will categorize shift work as a "probable" carcinogen by December | |
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