The Incidence Risk for Primary Glaucoma and Its Subtypes following Chronic Exposure to Ionizing Radiation in the Russian Cohort of Mayak Nuclear Workers

Secondary glaucoma is a typical normal tissue complication following radiation therapy involving ocular radiation exposure at high fractionated dose (several tens of Gy). In contrast, recent studies in acutely exposed Japanese atomic bomb survivors showed a significantly increased risk for normal-te...

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Published in:Cancers 2022-01, Vol.14 (3), p.602
Main Authors: Azizova, Tamara V, Bragin, Evgeny V, Bannikova, Maria V, Hamada, Nobuyuki, Grigoryeva, Evgeniya S
Format: Article
Language:English
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Atomic bombs
Blindness
Chronic exposure
Congenital diseases
Datasets
Diabetes
Dosimetry
Eye diseases
Gamma rays
Glaucoma
Hypertension
Ionizing radiation
Nuclear weapons
Occupational exposure
Radiation protection
Radiation therapy
Software
Standard deviation
Statistical analysis
Workers
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Summary:Secondary glaucoma is a typical normal tissue complication following radiation therapy involving ocular radiation exposure at high fractionated dose (several tens of Gy). In contrast, recent studies in acutely exposed Japanese atomic bomb survivors showed a significantly increased risk for normal-tension glaucoma (NTG, a subtype of primary open-angle glaucoma) at much lower dose, but such information is not available in any other cohorts. We therefore set out to evaluate the incidence of risk for primary glaucoma and its subtypes in a Russian cohort of Mayak Production Association nuclear workers who received chronic radiation exposure over many years. Of these, we found a significantly increased relative risk (RR) of NTG incidence (RR = 1.88 95% confidence intervals (CI): 1.01, 3.51; = 0.047) in workers exposed to gamma rays at cumulative brain absorbed dose above >1 Gy. We observed the linear relationship between NTG incidence and brain absorbed gamma dose with an excess relative risk per unit brain absorbed dose of 0.53 (95% CI: 0.01, 1.68; < 0.05), but not for any other subtypes nor for total primary glaucoma. Such elevated risk of radiogenic NTG incidence, if confirmed in other cohorts, has significant implications for normal tissue complications in radiotherapy patients receiving ocular radiation exposure, and for ocular radiation protection in radiation workers.
ISSN:2072-6694
2072-6694
DOI:10.3390/cancers14030602