If you don’t have cancer, but were put trough radiation therapy, what are the odds you’d get cancer?
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I screwed up, I worded the title badly. Can’t edit it anymore. My ACTUAL question is:
If you don’t have cancer, but were put trough radiation therapy, what are the odds you’d get cancer FROM the radiation therapy?
I mean, blasting non-cancerous cells with radiation sounds like to me that would cause cancer, right?
The same as getting cancer the first time
Radiation therapy kills existing cancerous cells, it doesn’t make you immune/resistant to future cancer growths which haven’t occured yet
Sounds like you are asking for an answer to a question, not a simplified explanation of a concept. Wrong sub.
Well it’s a very peculiar question but radiation therapy is used for non-cancerous treatments such as in treating tachycardia. In that case the dose of the therapy along with the angle the targeted cells will be hit at are carefully calculated to hit their mark and obliterate everything in a small area around it. The dose, area of treatment, and age of treatment will all play factors in developing cancer afterwards but by not having cancer in the first place you’re also less likely to develop cancer than someone who has already had it being treated with radiation. So in the end pretty slim as long as it’s a genuine therapeutic dose
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