Radiation hazards are as follows:
- Immediate hazards
- Bone marrow depression
- Immune suppression
- Damage to intestinal mucosa causing diarrhea and malabsorption.
- Baldness
- Rough and scaly skin
- In pregnancy: Fetal growth retardation, congenital malformations of fetus, fetal death.
- Delayed hazards
- Carcinogenesis
- Sterility
- Cataract
- Genetic defects
- DNA damage
- Mutation
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