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

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 risks.


a b s t r a c t
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 risks.  All the data are in this data article

Value of the data
The data can be used to assess incidence cancer risk from chest radiography in the State. The data will help to curtail the demand for chest radiography for school admission and employment purposes.
The data will enhance the optimization of radiographic procedures in the State to be as low as reasonably achievable.
The data is useful in radiation protection training and epidemiology studies. Cancer risks assessment can be extended to other irradiated organs arising from chest radiography not covered in this study.
The study can be extended to multi-centre studies. The data can be helpful to radiation regulatory authorities and policy makers.

Data
The data contains radiation doses and incidence of cancer risks among young adult females who underwent chest radiography for school admission purposes. Radiation protection of patients in diagnostic radiology is a subject of global concern. Concerted effort to minimizing patient's dose has led to generation of datasets [1][2][3][4][5]. Justification of radiographic examinations and optimization of the procedures have been the emphasis for the protection of patients [2,5,6]. Data on some experiences leading to the discouragement of requests for chest radiography used for school admission and employment purposes can be found in [7][8][9]. Data on the risks of cancer induction from low dose ionizing radiation can be found in [10][11][12][13][14]. Beyond cancer induction other radiation risks have been reported [15][16][17].

Description of data
The patient parameters, technical factors, radiation doses and incidence cancer risks are presented in Tables 1, 2 and 7. Descriptive analysis of patient parameters and technical factors are presented in Table 2 and the descriptive analysis of radiation doses and cancer risks is reported in Table 7. The influence of patient parameters and technical factors on entrance surface dose (ESD) is reported in Tables 3-6 and Fig. 2. Fig. 1 compares the entrance surface dose (ESD) with world data ( Table 7). The cancer risks ratio is presented in Table 7.

Data collection
Data was collected during chest radiography of young adult females (aged 17-25 year) at the x-ray unit of Radiology Departments of Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital Complex Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria. The participants were students admitted into one of the Schools of the University Teaching Hospital for the year 2017. Consent was obtained from each participant before the commencement of the examination. Entrance surface dose (ESD) were determined using thermoluminescent dosimeters (TLD-100: LiF: Mg, Ti) from RadPro International GmbH, Poland. Each of the TLD chip was enclosed in labelled black polythene pack. A total of three coded chips were used to measure the entrance surface dose (ESD) during the procedure in order to obtain the mean and enhance precision. The chips were attached to an elastic tape and placed in the centre of x-rays field where the beam intercepted with the irradiated part of the patient. Patient's clinical information and exposure parameters were noted and recorded using self-structured form. The x-ray machine output parameters were determined using MagicMax quality control kits (IBA Dosimetry, Germany).

Data collection tool
The TLD chips were oven-annealed using Carbolite oven made in England. Irradiation of TLD chips for calibration (for TLD chips and Reader) was conducted at the Secondary Standard Dosimetry Laboratory (SSDL) of the National Institute of Radiation Protection and Research (NIRPR), Ibadan. TLD chips were read using Harshaw Reader (Model 3500) at the Department of Physics, Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife.

Data analysis
The bone marrow dose, breast dose, lung dose and effective doses were evaluated from the measured entrance surface dose (ESD) using PCXMC software (version 20Rotation). Thereafter, BEIR VII model software was used to estimate the incidence cancer risk.

The study centre
The hospital is the only federal tertiary healthcare institution in the State with a population of about 4.7 million [21]. It provides tertiary, secondary and primary healthcare services to all the neighbouring States. The hospital serves as the teaching hospital of the Medical School of Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife and has other six schools under its jurisdiction.