• Question: what made you want to work around radiation?

    Asked by anon-198086 to Sonal on 12 Mar 2019.
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      Sonal Bhadane answered on 12 Mar 2019:


      One day i came across a news in papers about radiation causing cancer ( it was about Sun’s radiation causing skin cancer) That got me thinking, if radiation to normal cells can cause cancer, what if we gave even more intense radiation to cancer cells and cause them to get cancer ( giving cancer cells cancer) . So I asked my physics teacher about it and he told me that he didn’t knwo if that would work and that I needed to find out. That stuck with me.
      Little did I know about the Radiation therapy at that moment . Although we cannot cause cancer to cancer cells , my concept was not far too off.

      SO i decided I will work in the field to understand more how radiation can actually save lives.

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