Antinuclear

Low intensity ionising radiation to cause many cancers this summer.

In all the nuclear lobby’s push to say that low level radiation is harmless, people seem to quite forget that Ultraviolet (UV) rays from the sun are well known to cause skin cancers. Non melanoma skin cancers can kill, too, if left unchecked. UV rays are a form of ionising radiation that, while not penetrating deeply, do cause cancer

Sun’s rays likely to kill 80 in summer months NZ Herald, By Martin Johnston, 22 Dec 11 Skin cancer is New Zealand’s most common form of cancer and with Australia we have the world’s highest rates of melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer.

During the three months of summer it is likely, based on annual trends, that about 80 people will die of melanoma in New Zealand and 550 will be diagnosed as having the disease. The Cancer Society estimates that non-melanoma skin cancers are
diagnosed in 67,000 people each year and cause 100 deaths.

A Health Sponsorship Council survey has found that one in five people reported being sunburned during the preceding weekend, and half said they had in the past been moderately to severely sunburned, resulting in blisters or pain for two or more days. “That’s the sort of sunburn that raises your risk of developing melanoma later in life quite a lot,” the council’s Sun-Smart spokesman, Wayde Beckman, said yesterday…… http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10774742

December 22, 2011 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized