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Re:Low dose radiation cancer 2x worse than predicted by LNT ... by lazide on Friday August 18, 2023 @12:56PM (#37178507)
Is it because of elevated cosmic ray exposure due to the high altitude? Or plastic in the inflight meals? Or the crazy schedules? Or is there even a statistically significant effect over time?

Knowing any of these things is actually quite hard, and would require a lot of detailed data just to identify a potential pattern.

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Re:Low dose radiation cancer 2x worse than predicted by LNT ... by talldatethrow on Friday August 18, 2023 @01:44PM (#37179369)
To add to the data confusion lol, my grandmother basically never left her home farm. Never drank. Ate meat they slaughtered themselves. Sweets were a rare treat on holidays. You could barely get her to take a car trip because it scared her. Other than her no one is aware to have ever had cancer in our families history.

Died of breast cancer.

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