Post by Joe Neubarth on Dec 22, 2011 10:38:58 GMT -5
Radiation Ionizes (burns) cells.
That ionizing can happen anywhere in the cell, but when it happens to the cell DNA you can get cancer.
When hit, the DNA strand will try to repair itself. Three things can happen.
1. It can actually restore that damaged DNA.
2. It can not restore that damaged DNA and the cell dies.
3. It blotches the repair of the DNA and you have a mutant cell that can then go on and reproduce more mutant cells and you have what is called CANCER!