Cancer Treatment Options Forum - September 3rd, 2010 - 3 Comments
How does radiation cause our cells to get cancer?
Like radiation from an X-ray or Cat-Scan or someting.
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Radiation usually is comprised of what are called radicals. Radicals can insert in DNA and change the protein synthesis and therefore the way the cell functions. One of the functions that is most often effected is cell division and growth. Usually it effects the regulatory system that controls cellular division. If your cell division isn’t controlled, this leads to growth of more and more cancerous cells.
You would have to be exposed to many, many, MANY x-rays and cat scans to get too much radiation.
Radiation alters the way a cell reproduces itself, and the cell starts overproducing or producing mutant cells.
UVB- photons can will ‘attack’ DNA. they will then cause thymine (a base pair) to bind to another thymine. This is obviously not the natural composition and structure of DNA and this causes the damage.