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What does to much radiation do to the body?
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Chronic exposure: Stochastic effects are associated with long-term, low-level (chronic) exposure to radiation. Increased exposure makes health effects more likely to occur, but do not influence type or severity of the effect.Damage occurring at the cellular or molecular level, can be disruptive, permitting the uncontrolled growth of cells cancer. R;adiation can cause changes in dna, mutations.Genetic effects.
Answered 8/21/2013
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