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Space Radiation a Risk for Astronauts
Date:4/15/2008

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This is not the first possible link between space travel and cancer. The National Academies reported in 2004 that it had found the frequency of cancer in the astronaut population was higher than the incidence among the general U.S. population.

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SOURCE: Georgetown University, news release, April 15, 2008


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