Country-wise cancer risk levels due to X-rays | | Countries | X-ray exposure per year
(per 1,000 population) | Attributable cancer risk
(in percentage) | Cancer cases**
(per year) | | Australia | 565 | 13 | 431 | | Canada | 892 | 11 | 784 | | Croatia | 903 | 18 | 169 | | Czech Republic | 883 | 11 | 172 | | Finland | 704 | 07 | 50 | | Germany | 1,254 | 15 | 2,049 | | Japan* | 1,477 | 32 | 7,587 | | Kuwait | 896 | 07 | 40 | | Netherlands | 600 | 07 | 208 | | Norway | 708 | 12 | 77 | | Poland | 641 | 06 | 291 | | Sweden | 568 | 09 | 162 | | Switzerland | 750 | 10 | 173 | | The UK | 489 | 06 | 700 | | The US | 962 | 09 | 5,695 | *Number of CT scanners per million population in Japan is 37 times that for all health-care level 1 countries. If this number is reflected in annual frequency of CT examinations, then for Japan estimated annual number of X-rays per 1000 increases to 1573 and the attributable risk increases to 44%.
**Radiation-induced cancer risk
Source: Risk of cancer from diagnostic X-rays: estimates for the UK and 14 other countries, The Lancet, Volume 363, Number 9406, January 31, 2004 | |
