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What is the risk to cancer (oncology) nurses from working with dangerous chemotherapy drugs?

April 26, 2017cancer chemotherapy Conditions dangerous diseases Health nurses oncology risk working

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What is the risk to cancer (oncology) nurses from working with dangerous chemotherapy drugs?

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Those who don’t follow proper protocol are vulnerable to having the drug get in their skin somehow and thus the body absorbs it, and for someone who doesn’t need chemo, this is definitely not good. I am sure there have been nurses who accidentily got some chemo in their body some way from not following proper protocols and it probably made them very sick.

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As long as they are using the proper precautions in handling the chemo and don’t expose themselves to the radiation, there shouldn’t be a risk to the nurses.