North Augusta, Dec 16, 2020 (Issuewire.com) - Today's radiation protection regulations came from the idea that any amount of radiation raises the chance of cancer. However, a recent debate pointed out that this is wrong. A small amount of radiation lowers cancer risk. Regulations that require less dose, even when the dose is low, are wasteful because they give no benefit, and they increase cancer risk. Changing them would cut costs and decrease cancer rates.
Many scientists and representatives of organizations that support current radiation protection practices were invited to a debate sponsored by the XLNT Foundation and Scientists for Accurate Radiation Information (SARI). They did not refute the evidence for the cancer preventive effect of low-level radiation. In addition, when some of this evidence was pointed out in a publication, the official response from a major advisory group did not refute the evidence. Since, also on the basis of abundant basic research data, the concept that low-dose radiation has a cancer preventive effect appears to be correct, following regulations that require reducing doses, even when they are already low, would only increase cancer risk. Such regulations should be removed.
Jerry Cuttler, Vice President of the XLNT Foundation, recently completed a small pilot clinical trial of treatment for Alzheimer's disease that used low doses of radiation. He reported encouraging results and said that fear and concern about harm from radiation caused large delays in conducting the clinical trial. This same concern has impeded the trials on the use of low-dose radiation for patients dying from COVID-19 pneumonia.
A senior SARI member, who wishes to remain anonymous, said that his sister still suffers from the long-term side effects of chemotherapy she had many years ago. He said it is a shame that concerns about the risk of cancer have blocked the study of low-dose radiation for the treatment of cancer, even though several clinical trials had shown that it is at least as effective as chemotherapy, with few adverse side effects.
Charles Pennington, Secretary of the XLNT Foundation and a former executive of a nuclear systems firm said that eliminating the regulations relating to low radiation doses would give a tremendous boost to nuclear power by reducing design, licensing, construction, and operations costs and by substantially reducing public concerns regarding nuclear power plants.
Discarding the concept that low-dose radiation increases cancer risk and acknowledging that it reduces cancer risk would defeat concerns regarding low-dose radiation. This would allow studies to begin on many applications of low-dose radiation for the prevention and treatment of infections, inflammatory diseases, autoimmune diseases, cancer, and neurodegenerative diseases, for many of which no good treatments are available. The elimination of the fear of low radiation doses would also enable nuclear power to flourish, providing an abundance of low-cost, safe, and clean electricity, thereby improving the quality of life of the world population.
About the XLNT Foundation
XLNT Foundation is a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization whose mission is to inform everyone about the observed beneficial health effects of low-dose ionizing radiation, and to advocate for reform of the regulations.
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