Radiation Induced Cancer...

[Cllcanada]

A review of medical radiation induced cancers

bjr.birjournals.org/content...

[David39]

Thank you for posting the article, which was of particular interest to me as I had radiotherapy treatment around 30 years before being diagnosed with CLL. The 30 years lag is consistent with radiation induced caner and I had often wondered if the two were linked. My doctors have always ruled out any connection, and this article seems to confirm their view (my capitalisation):

"The LNT [Linear No-Threshold] has been modified slightly in two respects: data from the Life Span Study for the incidence at intermediate doses of leukaemias (OTHER THAN CHRONIC LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKAEMIA, WHICH SEEMS TO BE NON-RADIOGENIC [7]) correlate well with a linear-quadratic curve [8], similar to that shown in Figure 1..."

As I understand it, that says that CLL specifically doesn't appear to be caused by radiation.

[Cllcanada Top Poster CURE Hero]

Yes, in this case probbly not radiation...but certainly a recent study of clean up workers at Chernobyl found gamma and neutron radiation did increase risk of CLL. Medical x-ray radiation is quite different however.

Full study

ehp.niehs.nih.gov/wp-conten...

[Myrddin]

Always ensure x-ray needed and bear in mind we are getting background radiation all the time from geology especially if you live in Cornwall and Scotland

Useful table of exposures in the following page

radiologyinfo.org/en/safety...

[Cllcanada Top Poster CURE Hero]

Thanks that is a useful table...I think however these are average exposures...