enters a persona! body (like drinking blaaah, kerogene, DDT, eta.) hia wady is
quickly harmed =
if
aan be within 4 few minutes or days,
Howavyar,
if harm
wera to come from radiation, it would usually take a jong tima for it to
appear - 1t could be after many years.
The body contains a number of organs such aa lungs, liver, skin.
Each of
these organs has very small parts aalled calls that join together to form (all
parts of) the body.
Remember that there is radiation that haa always been a
part
and
of
the
world,
there
is
radiation
that
come
fron
atomic
bombs.
Scientists believe that the more radiation a person receives the more harm he
mignt have. Both the radiation that nas been a part of the world and that
from atomic bombs can cause harm to the cells of the body.
In addition there
are other things such as samoking that cauge Che same kind of damage to cells
fn
the
ttself.
bady.
Sometimes
this
kind
of damage
If tnia kind of damage oceurs,
‘ALL oells increase by dividing.
can
come
just
from
the body
it aan cause diseases called cancer,
{[t
is through this normal
dividing that growth and repair of the bady gccour.
process
of
Cancer happens when cells
in the body are damaged and rapidly grow and increase in number more than they
should,
By doling this,
make people get aiok.
they destroy the healthy parks of the body and can
Some paople can recover from cancer, but offers may not.
Cancer ooourred all
over the world before there were atomic bombs.
For
example, if there were 100 people who diad around the world from any cause,
about 15 of them would hava died fran aancer.
The dinnases of cancer continue
to oecur around tha world.
oancers
that
are
causad
by
radiation
eangera that are eauged by other things.
are
no
different
from
the
[f the diseases of cancer appear
we]
The