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Radium in drinking water is known to increase cancer risk, primarily for bone and sinus cancers (Mays and others,1985). As radium decays, the radiation that is emitted can strip
electrons from the atoms with which it collides, causing the atoms to become charged or “ionized.” The ionizing alpha and beta radiation emitted by radium consists of particles that move slowly and cannot penetrate skin. If radium is ingested, however, especially dissolved in water, the emitted alpha- and beta-particle radiation can ionize and damage cell tissue. Human bone tissue accumulates radium rather than allowing it to be removed from the body, thereby exposing the bones to tissue-damaging alpha or beta radiation.

Damage from continuous exposure can potentially cause cancer. Because it accumulates in the body, radium is considered to pose a greater cancer risk than most other radioactive
elements.

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