That would rise to 0.5 percent for those women who got the highest radiation doses as babies.
According to LNT, any and all radiation doses, even background and below, are harmful and linear with dose.
Daiichi employees have received the highest average radiation doses of those at any Japanese plant every year over the past decade.
North Shore-LIJ Health System recently began using a software package from GE with the aim of reducing radiation doses as much as 65%.
And doctors may need to look into adjusting radiation doses for cancer therapies, as they are, in part, based on radioactive decay rates.
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Radiation doses from the damaged nuclear power plant are not expected to cause an increase in the incidence of miscarriages, stillbirths or congenital disorders.
Thomas said the WHO report used inflated estimates of radiation doses and didn't properly take into account Japan's quick evacuation of people from Fukushima.
Radiation doses are measured in units known as millisieverts, or mSv.
"We do not advise our customers to crank up volume, " says Vachon, while touting GE's latest models as having the lowest radiation doses in the industry.
The shortened treatment regimen means higher radiation doses are required.
"On the basis of the radiation doses people have received, there is no reason to think there would be an increase in cancer in the next 50 years, " said Wade Allison, an emeritus professor of physics at Oxford University, who was not connected to the WHO report.
In Dr. Xu's lab, virtual patients are exposed to virtual radiation in doses similar to that of a CT scan or cancer-radiation treatment.
They found waste 12 to 20 feet underground emitting radiation in doses "we've never encountered" near the river.
Astronauts, too, are at risk from the higher doses of radiation associated with cosmic rays.
Others with fast-proliferating tumors would live longer with smaller doses of radiation two or three times a day.
Tepco's other plants also exposed their workers to higher doses of radiation than most other big Japanese operators.
Although the human cells are very good at repairing this damage, they cannot cope with high doses of radiation.
Eventually the doses of radiation should do so much damage to the cancerous cells that they would be killed.
He found x-ray machines that were obsolete and likely to be delivering much higher doses of radiation to patients.
It is clear that high doses of radiation cause an increase in cancer.
Emerging science suggests that low doses of radiation exposure can have numerous long-term effects, possibly passed from one generation to the next.
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Doses of radiation received by people near the damaged power plant were so low that no discernible health effect could be expected.
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Sunday morning came another gaffe, when Tepco admitted that three workers who been exposed to massive doses of radiation had not been forewarned.
It also hopes to use BLYS as a homing device to deliver tiny doses of radiation directly to cancerous tumors that hit the B-cells, such as lymphoma.
The phenomenon has been known to laboratory scientists for many years: Rats exposed to slightly higher than natural doses of radiation live longer than ones with natural exposure.
They were then able to give the mice higher doses of radiation therapy with no ill effect by blocking a mechanism by which endothelial cells communicate with each other.
That said the story of the men who volunteered to put their fingers in the leak - some of whom died soon after due to lethal doses of radiation - is compelling.
About 20 more who received high doses of radiation died of various causes in the following years, and as many as 4, 000 cancer deaths are expected as a result of the disaster, according to those U.N. agencies.
"This paper confirms that radiation, even in relatively low doses, does lead to risk" of certain cancers, said Alan Craft, emeritus chair at Newcastle University and an author of the paper.
New computer-guided systems for pinpoint radiation can zap tumors at far higher doses than previously possible, without destroying healthy tissue.
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