Screening policies for cancer/implant patients
 

So, advice is welcome from the FFlyer posters here.

My wife has breast cancer, and we will be travelling from IAH to BWI in two weeks. She will not have her post mast drains anymore but will have two temp expander implants which have metal, and a chemo drain implant in the upper chest area.

She will have pre-check, but I am concerned about alarming and the pat down after. She cannot lift her arms to do the AIT machine even if she wanted too (she doesn't LOL).

TSA notes they have a disability card but that seems useless and while a medical letter can explain the issue, the TSA site notes a pat down is still needed. Does anyone know or have experience travelling with metal type implants? She hard pushing on the sites, especially where the lymphnodes came out will be painful, and we cannot have the chemo port damaged.

Other than being examined in private I see little else on the TSA site unless I am missing it (and going to room is not really helpful).

Thanks for any advice or anecdotes.

Contact TSA Cares to get a specialist to meet you at the airport and accompany you and your wife through security.

Good luck.

As Chollie stated contact TSA Cares. Otherwise the screening will be a craps shoot on how things will go.

Here's a link.

https://www.tsa.gov/travel/passenger-support