Accidental Overexposure of Radiotherapy Patients in Bialystok
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Author(s): IAEA
Publisher: IAEA
ISBN: 920114203X
Format: softback
103pp
Price: €24.00
Review Date: 22 May 2004
Review: This book provides an account of the accidental overexposure to radiation of five women who were receiving postoperative radiotherapy in Poland in 2001. IAEA teams of medical specialists and radiation safety experts investigated the accident at the request of the Polish government, and this report describes in detail the background and circumstances of the accident, the clinical course of the overexposure in the five patients and the conclusions of the investigation, together with recommendations and lessons to be learned.