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Nuclear Radiation - Coggle Diagram

- - - - This leads to tissue damage
    - - This can rise to mutant cells which divide uncontrollably. This is known as cancer.
    - - this causes vomiting, hairloss and tiredness
  - - - Gamma sources are usually used in medical tracers
        
        Certain radioactive isotopes can be injected into the body and their progress made around the body can be traced from an external detector
        
        An example of this is iodine-123 which is absorbed by the thyroid gland and gives out radiation that can be detected to show weather the gland is taking iodine as it should
      - it is also used to treat cancer, known as radiotherapy
        
        Gamma rays at a specific dosage are carefully directed at cancer cells without damaging too many normal cells, however a fair bit of damage is done to normal cells.
    - - Beta rays can be used to treat cancers by putting radiating emitting implants next to or inside tumours