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Table 3 Mean effective dose received by survivors and controls with proportion of survivors receiving 50 and 100 mSv in years 5 through 15 after diagnosis/referent dates, stratified by malignancy type

From: Patterns of diagnostic imaging and associated radiation exposure among long-term survivors of young adult cancer: a population-based cohort study

  

Mean Effective Dose, mSv

Survivors Receiving Effective Dose

  

Dose, mSv

n (%)

Malignancy Type

n

Survivors

Controls

50 mSv

100 mSv

All Malignancies

20911

26.3

10.7

3333

(15.9)

1314

(6.3)

Breast

4581

34.4

13.0

909

(19.8)

386

(8.4)

Gynecologica

2782

19.6

11.2

308

(11.1)

120

(4.3)

Thyroid

2388

18.3

10.0

258

(10.8)

60

(2.5)

Melanoma

2088

14.9

9.9

166

(8.0)

60

(2.9)

Testicular

1390

23.4

7.8

241

(17.3)

57

(4.1)

NHL

1277

46.0

10.2

364

(28.5)

193

(15.1)

HL

1072

31.8

7.2

211

(19.7)

98

(9.1)

Urologic

895

31.6

11.2

175

(19.6)

76

(8.5)

Colorectal

785

26.4

12.1

140

(17.8)

50

(6.4)

Head & Neck

768

22.5

11.4

101

(13.2)

40

(5.2)

Brain

632

16.3

9.4

47

(7.4)

8

(1.3)

Bone & Soft-tissue

463

20.8

7.9

64

(13.8)

24

(5.2)

Chest & Lung

345

28.2

11.3

66

(19.1)

29

(8.4)

Leukemia

284

26.8

8.9

55

(19.4)

28

(9.9)

Upper GI

274

36.7

12.0

68

(24.8)

25

(9.1)

  1. aIncludes cervical, uterine and ovarian malignancies.
  2. Abbreviations: mSv, miliSieverts; NHL, non-Hodgkin lymphoma; HL, Hodgkin lymphoma; GI, gastrointestinal.