Airport Body Scanners 'Could Give You Cancer'
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Airport
Body Scanners 'Could Give You Cancer'
Dr
David Brenner, head of the centre for
radiological research at Columbia
University
in New York, said Government
scientists had
not taken into account the
concentration of
the radiation on the skin. He said it
raised
concerns about a potentially greater
risk of
cancer than previously realised. Dr
Brenner,
who is from Liverpool, said children
and
passengers with genetic mutations -
around one
in 20 of the population - were most at
risk
because they are less able to repair
X-ray
damage to their cells. He added that
the
danger posed to individual passengers
was
"very low" but said more research
was required to more accurately
determine the
risks. He said: "If all 800 million
people who use airports every year
were
screened with X-rays then the very
small
individual risk multiplied by the
large number
of screened people might imply a
potential
public health or societal risk. "The
population risk has the potential to
be
significant."
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