Exposure to low-level radiation resulting from industrial leakage or medical x-rays can increase the risk of childhood cancer.
- Low-level radiation exposure does not immediately affect health, although it can slightly raise the risk. Radiation risk can relate to both excess malignancies overall (incidence risk) as well as only excess cancers that are lethal (mortality risk).
- When exposed to the same radiation exposures as adults, children and adolescents face higher risks. Children have a rapid rate of cell growth and radiation sensitivity.
- Their youth lengthens the time it takes for any possible ionizing radiation impacts to manifest because the effects of radiation take years to develop.
- It is well known that childhood radiation exposure from nuclear power plant explosions, A-bomb explosions, and medical operations is linked to an increase in leukemia and thyroid cancer rates.
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