• Question: Do you think it is possible to do laser operations without their being any risk of cancer due to radiation, or do you think there will always be a risk, even if it is a small one?

    Asked by alkhf001 to Tom on 29 Jun 2012.
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      Tom Lister answered on 29 Jun 2012:

      The risk is extremely small. If you had laser treatment every week of you life, the risk of inducing cancer would be less than spending half an hour in the sun.

      There is never zero risk, but the risk is effectively zero for the treatments we do.

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