{"id":421,"date":"2026-04-02T01:40:56","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T01:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.sciencepicker.com\/?p=421"},"modified":"2026-04-02T01:40:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T01:40:56","slug":"study-finds-that-space-radiations-doesnt-cause-cancer-or-heart-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/study-finds-that-space-radiations-doesnt-cause-cancer-or-heart-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"Study finds that space radiations doesn\u2019t cause cancer or heart problems"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Outer space\nis a particularly uncivil environment, leaving astronauts exposed to high\nlevels of radioactivity. And radiation exposure can increase heart disease,\ncancer and rates in earthbound humans.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A new research came\nup with some good news! Space radiation doesn&#8217;t look to enhance astronauts&#8217;\nrisk of death from <strong>heart<\/strong> disease or cancer, at least not at the\ntreatments they experienced during historical missions. Still, Long missions \u2014\nfor example, the mission to Mars \u2014 will likely come with much greater radiation\ndosages that could cause larger health risks, the authors said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;And at high doses, that radiation has been\ntied not just to <strong>heart<\/strong> disease and cancer, but to a host of other health\nproblems as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Early researches\nhaven&#8217;t found a link between space trip and an increased risk of death from <strong>heart<\/strong>\ndisease or cancer; but since relatively some people have travelled to space,\nthese studies may have been extremely small to detect such a link, the authors\nsaid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new study analysed\ninformation from 418 space explorers, including 301 NASA astronauts who already\nhad travelled to space at least one time since 1959, and 117 Soviet cosmonauts\nor Russians who had travelled to space minimum one time since 1961. These\nparticipants were followed for about 25 years, on average.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At that time,\napproximately 89 members died. Among the 53 NASA astronauts, 30% died because\nof <strong>cancer<\/strong> and 15% died cause of <strong>heart<\/strong> disease; while among the\nSoviet cosmonauts or 36 Russian who died, 50% died from <strong>heart<\/strong> disease\nand 28% from cancer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The scientists used a special statistical procedure to discover whether deaths from <strong>heart<\/strong> disease and <strong>cancer<\/strong> likely had a common cause \u2014 in this case, the common cause would be space radiation. But their results did not lead to a general cause of death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;If\nionizing radiation is affecting the risk of death due to cardiovascular and <strong>cancer<\/strong>\ndisease, the effect is not dramatic,&#8221; the authors said in their research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Still, the study\ncannot conclude whether longer missions would cause different health risks. It\nis really important to note that future space missions for deep exploration\nwill likely offer greater doses of space radiation, as compare to any\nhistorical dose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outer space is a particularly uncivil environment, leaving astronauts exposed to high levels of radioactivity. And radiation exposure can increase heart disease, cancer and rates in earthbound humans. A new research came up with some good news! Space radiation doesn&#8217;t look to enhance astronauts&#8217; risk of death from heart disease or cancer, at least not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":777,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-space-and-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":778,"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions\/778"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.science-pickers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}