Is there any danger of radiation in cremating a remains who have undergone chemo therapy?

Are you kidding. The furnace burns up everything, even the gold rings on thier fingers. what is your problem with chemo. Do you drive a car or own a microwave or use a moble phone. All these things are anti environment. i.e. they are not a natual waterfall. get it. NO no danger of radiaton in cremating a ramains of someone you love who has died of cancer. How could you even think like that.

Don't do it in your own oven.

No, its all dust in a bag. There is more radiation in your car.

The only types of chemotherapy I know of that use radioactive materials are I-131 (radioactive iodine) used to treat thyroid cancer and brachytherapy that implants tiny radioactive seeds (I-125 or Pd-103) to treat protate cancer and (rarely) breast cancer. The amounts of radioactive materials that are used are very small and rapidly decay to nonradioactive materials.

Other, more commonly used chemotherapy agents are not radioactive.

Radiation therapy to treat cancer uses an external radiation source and doesn't leave any radioactive material in the body.

Do you mean radiation therapy?

only ifyou snort it

No but when you cremate someone they produce 15 lbs of ash yet the Cremator will only give the family 1 lb of ash.

I think you can find something here... http://www.answers.com/topic/chemotherap...

no chemo is not radiation and radiation does not be making everything radioactive.
If radiation did that then X-ray pictures would be radioactive. they are not.

there is only couple of radioactive drugs that are used to treat cancers and even then they only use minimal amounts of a radioactive isotope in these drugs. also when radiotherapy is used only small amounts of radiation are used and it is pointed directly at the cancer. the person does not become radioactive. you prob get more radiation from your mobile or microwave than you would from someone undergoing these types of treatment. also due to the half lifes of the isotopes used they are perfectly safe withins days of being used

radiation does not rely on heat to be dangerous. their is no danger in any wayt shape or form. relax and do the right thing for this person.

Could u explain maybe why this is bothering u i dont get it is all, cos the cremetorium blokes do everything for u

No, there is no danger of this. The one thing that does pose a danger to crematory retorts is pacemakers. They explode in the retort, therefor they must be removed prior to the cremation. Also, the cremated reamins weigh between 5-7 pounds, not 15 like someone said, and they certainly do return ALL of the remains to the family, not just one pound, that is just ridiculous. Also, this is an NOT a stupid question.

That depend on what type of treatment had done, on the other hand there is differance between chimical substances radiation which more dangerous than chimicals

I wouldn't have thought so with the temperatures that the furnace would reach