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Cancer risks from chest radiography of young adults: A pilot study at a health facility in South West Nigeria

Achuka, J.A and Aweda, Moses and Usikalu, M.R. and Aborisade, Caleb A. (2018) Cancer risks from chest radiography of young adults: A pilot study at a health facility in South West Nigeria. Data in Brief, 19.

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Abstract

The recommendation of chest radiography for school admission and employment purposes should be discouraged due to the risks of radiation especially cancer induction. It is therefore imperative to keep diagnostic radiation doses as low as possible. This dataset presents the entrance surface dose, effective dose, bone marrow dose, breast dose, lung dose and the incidence cancer risks from chest radiography of 40 young adult females. The mean incidence cancer risk to participants is 1: 20,000 for solid cancers. The data revealed the significant factors influencing the entrance surface dose and incidence cancer risk

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: Chest radiography Entrance surface dose Incidence cancer risks Technical factors
Subjects: Q Science > Q Science (General)
Q Science > QC Physics
Divisions: Faculty of Engineering, Science and Mathematics > School of Physics
Depositing User: Mrs Hannah Akinwumi
Date Deposited: 10 Apr 2019 15:28
Last Modified: 10 Apr 2019 15:28
URI: http://eprints.covenantuniversity.edu.ng/id/eprint/12594

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