Assessment of DNA Damage Due to Ionizing Radiation

Assiut University

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Occupational Exposure

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03240172

17200101

Details and patient eligibility

About

detection of DNA damage due to occupational exposure to low dose ionizing radiation using comet assay technique and genotyping of certain DNA repair genes to detect inherited polymorphism.

Enrollment: 100 estimated patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• • The radiation exposed workers will include nurses, technicians and physicians.

These persons will be occupationally exposed to different radiation sources.

Exclusion criteria

• History of diagnostic X-rays, radiotherapy and/or chemotherapy 12 months prior to sampling.