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Recent study reports that the full body scanners at the airport can pose potential risks of cancer to human body. Though the radiation levels that the scanners emit are quite low to pose a huge danger, the risks still seem to hover upon the regular users of airport full- body scanners.
Authors of the study have estimated the number of flights per year, for all fliers, to be about 750 million, with the number of passengers being 100 million, ultimately resulting in the risk of averagely 6 cancers in the life time of all these travelers.
For frequently flying people, those who use the airports more than 60 hours in a single week, 4 cancers are added to the list, i.e. a risk of 10 cancers in the lifetime of these airport users. In case of 5- year old kids, esp. girls, according to the authors there would be one extra breast cancer among young girls who travel at least once a week. All these cancer are estimated to occur from the full- body scanners at the airports.
The study has even considered other aviation factors collectively being responsible for the huge numbers of cancer in comparison with just the radiations emitting from the scanners. For instance, more than 600 cancers among frequent fliers, all around the year, can result from the high elevations of the flights. Yet, due to the potential risks of cancer generated from radiations of the full- body scanners, the TSA and related organizations are bound to pursue additional safety testing in case of these scanners.
