Table 2.

List of most common radiation-exposure associated morbidities in females and males.

Females

• Thyroid cancer in women of all ages

• Goiter and thyroiditis

• Production of thyroglobulin in girls

• Testosterone increase in young females

• Impaired leg blood flow

• Reproductive system disruption

• Fertility loss

• Complications in labor and delivery, uterine hemorrhages

• Increased number of miscarriages and pregnancy complications

• Increased overall cancer incidence

• breast cancer

• Uterine fibroids and uterine cancer

• Pediatric brain tumors in girls

• Lung cancer in occupationally exposed females

Males

• Goiter and thyroiditis, thyroid cancer in men older than 50

• Decrease of thyroxine in boys

• Early male impotence/erectile dysfunction

• Low sperm count, decreased sperm motility

• Prostate cancer

• Pediatric leukemia in boys

• Lung cancer