Recent studies suggest that every year worldwide about a million patients might be exposed
to doses of the order of 100 mGy of low-LET radiation, due to recurrent application of …

Radiation is an environmental factor that elevates the risk of developing thyroid cancer.
Actual and possible scenarios of exposures to external and internal radiation are multiple …

Over one million European children undergo computed tomography (CT) scans annually.
Although moderate-to high-dose ionizing radiation exposure is an established risk factor for …

Summary Background The European EPI-CT study aims to quantify cancer risks from CT
examinations of children and young adults. Here, we assess the risk of brain cancer …

In this article we review the history of key epidemiological studies of populations exposed to
ionizing radiation. We highlight historical and recent findings regarding radiation-associated …

Background In radiotherapy, especially when treating children, minimising exposure of
healthy tissue can prevent the development of adverse outcomes, including second cancers …

Computed tomography (CT) are often used for adult and pediatric patients. This is basically
due to its powerful diagnostic capabilities in providing the tiniest details of pathologies in the …

In epidemiologic studies, association estimates of an exposure with disease outcomes are
often biased when the uncertainties of exposure are ignored. Consequently, corresponding …

Radiation has both beneficial and harmful effects, and radiation epidemiology is the
specialized field of epidemiology dealing with radiation exposure and the associated health …

We derived the first comprehensive organ dose library for Canadian pediatric and adult
patients who underwent computed tomography (CT) scans between 1992 and 2019 to …