Purpose: The incident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station in 2011 has again raised concerns with the public regarding radiation exposure, especially so in medical workers and patients undergoing treatment involving the use of radiation. Radioisotopes are currently used during sentinel node navigation surgery (SNNS) in operating rooms without radiation monitoring. To re-evaluate the safety issues, the potential effective dose (E poten ) from 99m Tc-tin (-Sn) colloid in breast cancer surgery was estimated and personal dose equivalents, H p (10) and H p (0.07), were measured during SNNS.
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