Stochastic Effects Sample Clauses

Stochastic Effects. Sometimes, the effect of radiation is not to kill the cell but to alter it in some way. In most cases this alteration will not affect the cell significantly so there will be no observable effect. However there is a possibility that the injury might affect the control system of the cell, subsequently causing it to divide more rapidly than normal. If the affected cell does begin to divide in this way, an increasing number of abnormal daughter cells will be produced. If these abnormal cells invade normal tissue they are called malignant cells and this results in cancer. The type of cancer formed is dependent on the type of the original cell which was altered. Cancers do not appear immediately after radiation exposure but appear after a latency period in which no effects are observable. The latency period is dependent on the type of cancer but can vary from two years for leukemia to thirty years or possibly longer for some solid cancers. For this reason the concept of latency has been replaced by a combination of “age at exposure” and “time since exposure”. Hence, cancer is classified as a late effect. Unlike deterministic effects, the amount of radiation exposure does not change the severity of the cancer but it does alter the chance of getting cancer. In other words, exposure to a high dose can increase the risk of getting a cancer but if cancer occurs (whether it be at low or high dose) the severity of the cancer is the same. This is rather like a lottery prize in that even a single ticket could win the first prize but the more tickets you buy the more chance you have of winning. However, the value of the prize does not change. Effects of ionizing radiation which rely on chance are referred to as stochastic effects. For the purposes of radiation protection, it is assumed that the probability of a stochastic effect increases linearly as the dose increases and that there is no threshold dose; however, there is still much scientific debate regarding the exact shape of the dose-response curve at the relatively low doses experienced in medical imaging (see Figure 12). If there is no threshold dose then it is considered that even small doses of radiation might cause cancer.
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