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Can thermal blankets cause cancer?
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No: While even chronic use of thermal blankets have not been associated with cancer, chronic exposure to marked heat such as what tibetan monks have used in small coal pots applied to the abdomen to keep them warm. They freaquently develop ulcerating squamous cell cancers on the abdominal wall where the heat was applied.
Answered 4/18/2014
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