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Radiation Protection Dosimetry 98:291-298 (2002)
© 2002 Oxford University Press

Estimation of X Ray Overexposure in a Childhood Leukaemia Cluster by Means of Chromosome Aberration Analysis

I. Schmitz-Feuerhake, H. von Boetticher, B. Dannheim, K. Götz, A. Heimers, W. Hoffmann and H. Schröder

Only multiple X ray diagnostics could be identified as a common risk factor in a leukaemia cluster that appeared between 1985-1989 in the municipality of Sittensen in northern Germany. In order to judge if the effect could be explained by irradiation dose, estimates were done in two of the leukaemia cases and seven former patients of a practice where some of the leukaemia cases had been treated for orthopaedic reasons. The methods used for the reconstruction of doses were physical simulation and biological dosimetry by dicentric chromosomes in peripheral lymphocytes. Compared to the Bremen laboratory control the mean frequency of dicentric chromosomes in the lymphocytes of the seven volunteers was significantly elevated. An overexposure of about 12-fold could be derived compared to state of the art X raying. At least two cases of the leukaemia cluster in Sittensen can therefore be correlated to an overexposure by diagnostic X rays.


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