Estimation of cancer risk due to radiation exposure for some daily consumption of foods

• Published in: Journal of cancer research and therapeutics Vol. 16; no. 8; pp. 64 - 67
• Main Authors: Abbasi, Akbar, Bashiry, Vali
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: India Wolters Kluwer India Pvt. Ltd 01.12.2020; Medknow Publications and Media Pvt. Ltd; Medknow Publications & Media Pvt. Ltd
• Subjects: Agaricales - chemistry; Animals; Cancer; Diet Surveys - statistics & numerical data; Environmental aspects; Food; Food Analysis - statistics & numerical data; Food Contamination, Radioactive - analysis; Food Contamination, Radioactive - statistics & numerical data; Health aspects; Humans; Iran - epidemiology; Meat - analysis; Milk - chemistry; Neoplasms - epidemiology; Neoplasms - etiology; Oryza - chemistry; Potassium Radioisotopes - analysis; Radiation Dosage; Radiation Exposure - adverse effects; Radium - analysis; Risk Assessment - methods; Risk Assessment - statistics & numerical data; Risk factors; Thorium - analysis; Triticum - chemistry; Iran; effective dose; cancer risk; food; Activity concentration

Aims: Considering the increasing concern about the cancer risk caused by environmental radiological effects related to the food consumption, the study was carried out evaluate the activity concentrations and cancer risk assessments of 226 Ra,232 Th, and 40 K in 72 food samples collected from differe...