Gneera a persona’
oaay (ilke arinking Disaah, Kerosene, DDT, eta.)
quickly harmed «
it can be within a faw minutes or days.
Nis bady is
However,
if harn
ware to come from radiation, it would usually take 4 jong tima for it to
appear ~ lt could be after many years.
The body contains a number of organs 3uch ag lunga, liver, skin.
Each of
these organs has vary sais] parte called calls that join together to form (all
parts of) the body.
Remambar that there is radiation that has always bean a
part of the world,
and
there
is radiation that come
from atomic bombs.
Scientists balieve that the more radiation a person receives the more harm hé
might have.
Both the radiation that has been a part of Lhe world andj that
from atomic bombs can cause harm to the cella of the body.
In addition there
aré ather things such a3 smoking that cause the same kind of damage to cells
in
the body.
ttaself.
Sometimes
this
kind
of damage can
come
just
from
the hady
Ir this kind of damage occurs, it can cause diseases ealled cancer,
All oalls increase by dividing.
{ft
is through this normal
dividing that growth and repair of the bady aecur.
proceas
of
Cancer happens when cells
in the body are damaged and rapidly grow and increase in number more than they
should,
By doing this,
make people gat aick.
Cancer oacurred
thay destroy the healthy parks of the body and can
Some people can recover from cancer, but others may not.
all
over
the world
before there were atomic bombs.
For
example, if there were 100 people who died around the world from any cause,
about 15 of them would haya died from cancer.
The djisnasas of caneer continue
to veeur around the world.
fhe
ocancerg
that
are caused
by radiation
cancers that are caused by other things.
are
no
different
from
the
If the diseases of cancer appear
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