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Can you get radiation from someone receiving radiation for cancer? would it get on you or your clothes? why?
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NO: Exposure to somebody who had radiation dose not give radiation to anybody.
Answered 8/12/2014
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No: Radiation is energy like sunlight. The beams pass through the cancer and kill the cells, they don't remain. Just like you can't get sunburnt from being next to someone who was out in the sun.
Answered 8/12/2014
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