Risk analysis of malignant tumor among medical diagnostic X-ray workers during 1997-2011 in Jiangsu province
10.3760/cma.j.issn.0254-5098.2015.06.012
- VernacularTitle:江苏省医用X射线工作者1997-2011年队列随访恶性肿瘤发病危险分析
- Author:
Yufei LIU
;
Furu WANG
;
Ningle YU
;
Xiaosan XU
;
Xiaoqing CHENG
;
Yinghua FU
;
Quanfu SUN
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Medical X-ray workers;
Malignant tumor;
Radiation carcinogenesis
- From:
Chinese Journal of Radiological Medicine and Protection
2015;35(6):455-460
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Objective To continue following up the cohort members in Jiangsu province who were the largest subgroup in Chinese medical X-ray workers cohort subgroups on radiation carcinogenesis and analysis the cancer risk of medical X-ray workers which might be induced by chronic low-dose ionizing radiation between 1997 and 2011.Methods A retrospective cohort study was utilized to accumulate data.Epicure was applied to compute cumulative person years (with module of Datab) and relative risk (including 95% CI) of malignant tumor on exposed group(with module of AMFIT) while the factors such as sex and attained-age were adjusted in the cohort members.Results The 7 708 follow-up members included 3 668 medical X-ray workers.The cumulative person-year in the cohort members was 94 651.2 (1997-2011) and its lost rate was 5.79%.During the follow-up period,441 cases had became cancer patients.The relative risk of all cancers was 1.44 (95% CI:1.18-1.75),so was the solid cancers.Significant elevated risks of cancer were found on lung (RR =1.95,95% CI:1.30-2.92),esophagus (RR =3.04,95% CI:1.20-7.70),lymphoma(RR =2.24,95% CI:0.67-7.48),leukemia(RR =1.57,95 % CI:0.33-7.39),throat (RR =2.47) and thyroid (RR =2.80,95 % CI:0.24-32.26) among medical X-ray workers.However,The RR of malignant tumors might not be associated with occupational exposure to ionizing radiation if we considered the lost factors (RR =1.2,95% CI:0.94-1.46)Conclusions The RR of malignant tumors such as the cancer on lung,esophagus,thyroid among the medical X-ray workers in Jiangsu province were enhanced which might be associated with occupational exposure to ionizing radiation.