H. Watanabe et al., COMPARISON OF TUMORIGENESIS BETWEEN ACCELERATED HEAVY-ION AND X-RAY IN B6C3F1 MICE, Journal of radiation research, 39(2), 1998, pp. 93-100
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20
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Radiology,Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging","Biology Miscellaneous
The effects of heavy ion and X-ray irradiation on tumorigenesis in B6C
3F1 mice were compared. Six-week-old animals were divided into 6 group
s and exposed to 0.426 Gy heavy ion irradiation of 290 MeV/u carbon-io
n beam (LET 60-210 KeV/mu m) at the dose rate of 0.4 +/- 0.2 Gy/min; 0
.5 Gy of X-ray irradiation at 0.1 Gy/min or 5 Gy of X-ray irradiation
at 1 Gy/min. The mice were killed and an autopsy performed 13.5 months
after the whole body irradiation. Body weights were heaviest for both
sexes in the 0.5 Gy group and Lightest in the 5 Gy one. Total tumor i
ncidences in the males were 30, 56 and 13% respectively in the heavy i
on, 5 Gy and 0.5 Gy X-irradiated groups, stomach tumors, lymphomas and
adrenal tumors being the most common outcome of the high dose X-rays.
Liver tumor induction did not differ significantly among the groups.
In the females tumorigenicity was significantly lower for heavy ion th
an for 0.5 Gy and 5 Gy X-ray irradiation (P < 0.05), the respective in
cidences, mainly ovary one, being 73%, 17% and 41%. Non-cancerous lesi
ons, such as graying of the hair, glomerular sclerosis and amyloidosis
appeared in the 5 Gy group. These findings indicate that 0.426 Gy of
heavy ion irradiation induced lower carcinogenicity than 5 Gy of X-irr
adiation and higher carcinogenicity than that of 0.5 Gy X-irradiation
in male mice.