Airport scanners could cause cancer

Ian Liberman via Scientific American magazine

Airport scanners could cause cancer when reviewed by Scientific American.

U.S. Glossed Over Cancer Concerns Associated with Airport X-Ray Scanners: Scientific American

www.scientificamerican.com

Experts say the dose from the backscatter is negligible when compared with naturally occurring background radiation, but a linear model shows even such trivial amounts increase the number of cancer cases