Could the full-body scanners proposed by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) give you cancer?
CBS News medical correspondent Dr. Jennifer Ashton says the risk is very low.
A back scanner — one of the types the TSA hopes to install at airports — has only one percent of the radiation you would get in a dental X-ray, according to Ashton.
“Early Show” co-anchor Maggie Rodriguez said, “That certainly doesn’t sound like a big deal — especially for somebody who doesn’t travel very much.”
Ashton said many radiation experts are now weighing in, finding that even if a billion people were scanned using a back scanner, it could result in 10 additional cancer deaths per year.
