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“It still gets people surprised,” Milstein says. “Everybody asks, what about the head? But we’re actually able to reduce the effective dose by 60 percent withou
by bcraven 2mo ago
“It still gets people surprised,” Milstein says. “Everybody asks, what about the head? But we’re actually able to reduce the effective dose by 60 percent without protecting the head, the arms, or even the legs.”
Whilst I understand the maths here, I can see why someone would be nervous!
- antonvs 2mo agoIt's ok, everything except your brain will be protected from radiation!
- clickety_clack 2mo agoYou’ll be cancer-free on average!
- weinzierl 2mo agoYour brain is quite robust against cancer and when it gets it, if is often a relatively fast death.
- weinzierl 2mo agoYou need to protect anything with relatively fast dividing cells best because this is where the cancer risk is highest. The brain with its slow dividing cells and fast killing tumors is the last thing to protect.