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Chemotherapy Patients Set Off Subway Alarms

Posted by chrisd on from the oops dept.

dave writes "Recently, cities such as New York and elsewhere have been installing radiation detectors in subways as an anti-terror precaution. However, as reported in New Scientist, patients who are undergoing radiation treatment are setting off the alarms. From the article, "a 34-year-old patient who had been treated with radioactive iodine for Graves disease, a thyroid disorder, returned to their clinic three weeks later complaining he had been strip-searched twice in Manhattan subway stations.""

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  1. chemotherapy != radiation by Marijuana+al-Shehi · · Score: 0, Redundant

    n/t

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    "I think all foreigners should stop interfering in the internal affairs of Iraq"
    -- Paul Wolfowitz, 7/21/2003
  2. Re:The dose makes the poison by Mauler · · Score: 0, Redundant
    > Gamma radiation . . . is not as
    > damaging because it is not ionizing.

    Is no one going to call you on this?

    Gamma radiation is most definitely ionizing.

    "Ra-di-a-tion. Yes, indeed. You hear the most outrageous lies about it. Half-baked goggle-box do-gooders telling everybody it's bad for you. Pernicious nonsense! Everybody could stand a hundred chest X-rays a year. They ought to have them, too." - J. Frank Parnell, a.k.a. Edward Teller, Repo Man