From BBC Health - August 04, 2006 09:36
Patients having radiation treatments should be warned they may falsely trigger security alarms, experts advise.
Patients having radiation treatments should be warned they may falsely trigger security alarms, say experts.
Their advice follows the case of a patient who set off a US airport security alarm at check-in six weeks after receiving radioiodine therapy.
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He was interrogated, strip-searched and finally released, after a long delay and much embarrassment, the British Medical Journal reports.
Each year 10,000 UK people are treated with radioiodine for thyroid problems.
