Though cancer risks are the primary concern for astronauts exposed to space radiation and a number of astronauts have developed cancer, identifying a direct association or cause of disease has been somewhat problematic due to a lack of statistics and a lack of an appropriate control group. However, several bio,logical effects observed in astronauts are believed to be primarily due to exposure to space radiation. Among those are, light flashes experienced by astronauts from early missions, cataract development in the crewmembers and excess chromosome aberrations detected in astronauts' lymphocytes postmission. The space radiation environment and evident biological effects will be discussed.


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    Title :

    Evident Biological Effects of Space Radiation in Astronauts


    Contributors:
    Wu, Honglu (author)

    Conference:

    13th Annual Meeting of the Council on Ionizing Radiation Measurements and Standards (CIRMS) ; 2004 ; Gaithersburg, MD, United States


    Publication date :

    2004-10-25


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English





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