How much are Acute Radiation Syndrome and cancer correlated?
According to Wikipedia, Acute Radiation Syndrom (ARS) results from damage to
DNA
"other key molecular structures within the cells"
I'd like to know how relevant damage of the second kind is. Given that DNA damage in turn leads to cancer, the correlation between ARS and development of cancer might give at least a hint as to how important that second factor is.
So: How likely is a person to develop cancer, given he has already had ARS in the past?
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From your link:
According to the linear no-threshold model, any exposure to ionizing radiation, even at doses too low to produce any symptoms of radiation sickness, can induce cancer due to cellular and genetic damage. Under this assumption survivors of acute radiation syndrome face an increased risk developing cancer later in life. The probability of developing cancer is a linear function with respect to the effective radiation dose
Again, according to the linear no-threshold model, which is used for US and much international legislation.
It is not possible to accurately know effective doses from only the ARS symptoms. The rough values are also mentioned in your link.
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