Reports of patients with thyroid cancerfrom radiation alarms hotel room push the agency to nuclear safety pollutants taking into account the highest standards calculated.

Congressional study released Wednesday showed that patients sent home after radioactive iodine treatment of infected guests and leave the innocent alarms to public transport.

They came in close contact with vulnerable people such as pregnant women and children, garbage from their homes, provided that the radiation detector in landfills.

Nuclear Regulatory Commission is considering new rules for a particular problem, the sidewalks to send patients to the hotel after the treatment, a spokesman said on Wednesday.

“The assumption was that patients go home,” said David McIntyre. “After some of them, and we are developing new guidelines.” It is not clear whether radiation exposure high enough to cause damage.

Agency also seeks to ensure that the risks of exposure of pregnant women and children are clearly ill, McIntyre said after a meeting of the Committee on this issue.

Rep. Edward Markey, D-Mass., Says the problem stems from a decision years ago remains NRC requirements for patients with thyroid cancer in the hospital a few days after swallowing packages of radioactive iodine to reduce their tumors.

“There is a strong possibility that members of the public, patients exposed to radiation without being noticed,” Markey wrote a letter to the NRC that the results obtained by researchers in his team. “It happened because of the weakness NRC regulation, clearly effective supervision of the doctors and managers of these treatments, and lack of guidelines, patients and physicians.”

to develop more than 40,000 people a year, thyroid cancer, which usually responds well to treatment. Some species through the uptake of radioactive iodine or iodine-131 cultivated. He concentrates in the thyroid, but small amounts excreted in the urine and saliva and sweat.

People treated with high doses can be kept in the hospital, many patients at home with other exposure guidelines to minimize the coming days. Most of the radiation is within a week away, said the site of the National Cancer Institute patients.

Traditionally, these patients were in hospital, but the treatment was now less expensive outpatient services. Patients will have to be sent home to follow special precautions such as sleeping alone in her bed and give hugs and kisses for children. The survey shows that the soup, if the distribution is in progress.
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Employees of the House Subcommittee on Energy and Environment, Markey chairs the detailed questionnaire to Member States, the NRC rules an online survey conducted among more than 1,000 thyroid cancer patients apply.

It was found that:

• The patient received a dose of radioactive iodine by bus to New York Board today but moved radiation detectors, such as cleaning bus to Atlantic City Lincoln Tunnel, New Jersey, casino Mecca. To New Jersey State Police took the bus and dragged him, officers determined that the patient received medical advice to avoid public transport for two days, and ignored. Incident in 2003 showed that NRC regulations do not require the patient to stay off public transport.

• 7 percent of foreign patients in the study said, they went directly to a hotel after their treatment, usually with their medical knowledge. The nights are especially worrisome because the patient the other guests and service can expose workers. In 2007, Illinois hotel infrastructure after a patient infected washed along with other magazines. The accident was probably gone, but for workers who left after the nuclear power plants in the same hotel and give the alarm when radiation reported to work.

• a quarter of the foreign patients in the study, said she never discussed with their doctor to prevent the exposure of pregnant women and children to radiation. The study found 56 cases where the patient is sharing a bathroom or a bedroom with a pregnant woman or child, or had other close ties, the very medical guidelines discouraged.

• At least two states – Maryland Massachusetts – said they have encountered problems with waste from hospitals treated with radioactive iodine. Garbage truck set off radiation alarms at landfills require that much to unpack and examine, so health workers, a number of risks.

Markey urged the agency rules that more patients in the clinic for review are stored. Representatives of the patients said that the insurance companies to refuse for a standard room in a hospital payment because it is not necessary. She called for a boycott of the use of public transport leaving patients after radiation.