Open AccessWork history and radioprotection practices in relation to cancer incidence and mortality in US radiologic technologists performing nuclear medicine procedures
Author(s) -
Marie Odile Bernier,
Michele M. Doody,
Miriam E. Van Dyke,
Daphnée Villoing,
Bruce H. Alexander,
Martha S. Linet,
Cari M. Kitahara
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
occupational and environmental medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.458
H-Index - 141
eISSN - 1470-7926
pISSN - 1351-0711
DOI - 10.1136/oemed-2017-104559
Subject(s) - medicine , incidence (geometry) , cancer , cancer incidence , cohort , nuclear medicine , physics , optics
Technologists working in nuclear medicine (NM) are exposed to higher radiation doses than most other occupationally exposed populations. The aim of this study was to estimate the risk of cancer in NM technologists in relation to work history, procedures performed and radioprotection practices.