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human
[S.T.A.L.K.E.R.] Is everyone in 'the zone' doomed to an early death from cancer?

 Even if the Stalkers survive the bullets, bandits, burors, and bastards that love stealing artifacts. They're constantly running into pockets of radiation and are collecting items that are literally glowing from contamination.

 Are they all doomed to an early death from radiation?
gpt
Cancer?  HA!  Those who make their living in the Zone should be lucky to live long enough to die from cancer.  S.T.A.L.K.E.R.s have access to the finest military grade armor with the best radiation shielding (at least, the successful ones do.)  Some even possess powerful artifacts that can even remove radiation from the body entirely- ironic that the Zone which poisons them would also furnish an unprecedented method of turning back the clock of exposure.

But even the newbie, the failure, the pauper who can't afford these protections isn't worried about cancer in a few years time when they have nothing but a thick jacket and a double-barreled shotgun to save themselves from a pack of radioactive mutant dogs, psychic mutants, bloodsuckers, anomalies, and the greed and desperation of other men today.