Abstract
In this study, 30 samples of lung cancer patients were collected from Middle Euphrates Oncology Center in Najaf, Iraq. A plastic track CR-39 Reagent technique, strippable was used to measure radium and uranium concentrations. Normality was a washing solution) NaOH ) was6.25 to clarify chemical drilling to read under the electron microscope to calculate alpha particles paths. Effective radium content values were ranged from 0.1592 Bq / kg to 3.2278 Bq / kg with an average value of 1.246Bq/kg where uranium concentrations values were ranged from 5.5671ppm to 112.8615ppm with an average value of 43.5883ppm for healthy human compared with patients were effective radium content values were found from 0.261Bq/ kg to 3.286 Bq/ kg with an average value of 1.345 Bq/kg where uranium concentrations values were found to be from 9.1099 ppm to 114.8859 ppm with an average value of 47.052ppm. A positive relationship was observed between Radium concentration and uranium concentrations in blood samples. Measurements of Radium and uranium concentrations in lung cancer patients, this research important in terms of health protection, simple and reliable analysis methods which available.
Highlights
Studies on radiation levels and the distribution of radionuclides in the environment provide basic information on radiation
Uranium and radium belong to the primitive radionuclide group, because they were always present in the earth
Gas radionuclides can be inhaled .For example 226Ra, 224Ra and 228Ra are of radioactive importance because radium behaves chemically like calcium, where it is deposited on bone surfaces and metabolic areas [2]
Summary
Studies on radiation levels and the distribution of radionuclides in the environment provide basic information on radiation. Uranium and radium belong to the primitive radionuclide group, because they were always present in the earth. Radioactive nuclides such as 238U, 235U and 232TH, are through three distinct strands of radionuclides, are of great importance in the nuclear fuel cycle. Gas radionuclides can be inhaled .For example 226Ra (half-life of 1600 years), 224Ra and 228Ra (half-life of 3.6 days, 625years, respectively, both usually mix with uranium ore) are of radioactive importance because radium behaves chemically like calcium, where it is deposited on bone surfaces and metabolic areas [2]. Radium found in the soil is taken by plants and enters the body with vegetarian / non-vegetarian food and tends to follow the calcium metabolism to become concentrated in the bones [9]
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