Cancer Treatment Options Forum - December 9th, 2010 - 3 Comments
If radioactivity can cause cancer, do cancer radiation treatments radiate the people around the patients?
Thus increasing the cancer risk to the general population?
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As the other answers indicated, no one else is actually reciving exposure to the radiation during treatments.
If however someone was exposed to a small amount of radiation, it doesnt mean they are going to get cancer anyway.
Radiation treatment centers use shielding to prevent others from being exposed.
You do know that there is no one in the lead lined room that someone is in during radiation treatments? You do know that when the machine is cut off and the techs open the door and come in, they are not wearing lead lined suits? There is no radiation seeping from us. It goes straight through us and then is gone. It does, however, increase the risk of certain cancers to those of us that have had radiation treatments.