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Can Close Proximity To Someone On Radiation Therapy Cause Symptoms Like Body Pain?

I have pain to my right side, started in right shoulder, down to my arm, and seems to be going into my right hip, leg and foot. my mom had cancer and she was getting radiation on hip, and brain, I was her transportation. could I be having effects from thatnor
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no it's not like that. radiation therapy doesn't works like that. it's not radioactive. these symptoms are basic fatigue symptoms and there is no relation with radiation therapy.
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Can Close Proximity To Someone On Radiation Therapy Cause Symptoms Like Body Pain?

no it s not like that. radiation therapy doesn t works like that. it s not radioactive. these symptoms are basic fatigue symptoms and there is no relation with radiation therapy.