Assertion: radiation | /r/Causes | cancer
Facets:
value: at high dose rates
type: MANNER
value: in most parts of the body
type: LOCATION
value: at high doses
type: MANNER
value: potentially
type: MANNER
value: at any age
type: TEMPORAL
value: in all animals
type: OTHER
value: subsequently
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: Radiation can also cause cancer, and in some cases patients experience secondary malignancies as a result of radiation therapy.
text: Does radiation therapy cause cancer?
text: Can radiotherapy actually cause cancer?
text: Many patients are concerned that radiation therapy will cause another cancer.
text: Although too much radiation was subsequently found to cause cancer, at the right dose its curative properties have been well established.
text: We know that radiation can cause cancer, and we also know radiation can be harmful to the fetus at various stages of pregnancy.
text: For instance, radiation can mutate nucleotide sequences in our DNA, potentially causing cancer.
text: Radiation can cause cancer in most parts of the body, in all animals and at any age.
text: Although radiation may cause cancer at high doses and high dose rates, public health data do not certainly establish the occurrence of cancer following exposure to low doses and dose rates -- below about 10,000 mrem (100 mSv).
text: Some patients worry that radiation therapy will cause cancer years after treatment.