Crematoriums warned cancer patients may pose radiation risk

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Crematoriums warned cancer patients may pose radiation risk
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Cremating cancer patients who have undergone radiotherapy may inadvertently send radioactive particles into the air, scientists have warned.

In the first ever known case, researchers in the US found radiation contamination in a crematorium in Arizona after a 69-year-old man had been cremated following treatment with an intravenous drug for pancreatic cancer.

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