03/12/2016
"But such a model ignores the fact that the human body is able to repair damage caused by low-dose radiation - something that has evolved over millennia in humans and other organisms that are continually exposed to naturally occurring radiation in the environment. The authors note:
"We are literally bathed every second of every day in low-dose radiation exposure due to natural background radiation, exposures that vary annually from a few mGy to 260 mGy, depending upon where one lives on the planet."
They go on to explain how no associated health effects as a result of being exposed to this background radiation have been documented anywhere in the world."
Researchers say there is no proof low-dose radiation from medical imaging causes cancer and urge we throw out the old, unproven theoretical model that makes people think otherwise.
