Cancer Treatment Options Forum - December 13th, 2010 - 2 Comments
Is radiation more dangerous for cancer survivors?
I am reading up on these creepy fully body scanners at the airports. Not only do they let the staff working the machine see you naked, but there’s high volumes of radiation in them. Is this dangerous for cancer survivors who once had to go through a LOT of radiation to get rid of cancer? Does it give them a higher risk in the cancer coming back?
Please, no rude answers. Thank you (:
Any exposure to radiation raises your lifetime risk of cancer as well as your lifetime risk of cancer re-occurrence.
Since going through an airport scanner, unlike an xray, is not a medical necessity, I believe everyone should opt out. Even if the scanner only causes 1 in 1mil people to develop cancer they otherwise wouldn’t later in life… why risk that one person’s life for an invasive, illegal and inhumane technology that does nothing to advance our safety?
And no, it’s not a "cartoon like outline." The scanner can see your nipples, the shape of your breasts, your buttocks, the line of your labial lips, if you are wearing a tampon or pad, if you have a medical device under your clothing… anything. That is a strip search no matter how you term it…
Keep your clothes and your dignity intact. Opt out.
No. You need virtually thousands of xrays at all to be affected by them. . They do not see you naked. It is a cartoon like picture, not like a Photograph! It’s not like you are going to put on a show!
I doubt that it will give them a higher risk of it returning when so much is used in the first place to get rid of it.