Date: 1 August 1968

Location: Wisconsin, USA

Type of event: radiotherapy accident

Description:

A patient was killed by a dose of 400-500 rads to the bone marrow from gold-198 during a liver scan. (Two sources give the location as Wisconsin; one gives Argonne Cancer Hospital near Chicago, Illinois.)

Consequences: 1 fatality.

References:

• Mould, R. F., 2000, Chernobyl Record: The Definitive History of the Chernobyl Catastrophe, Institute of Physics Publ. (Bristol, UK).
• Ricks, Robert C., Mary Ellen Berger, Elizabeth C. Holloway, and Ronald E. Goans, 2000, "REAC/TS radiation accident registry: update of accidents in the United States," on line, International Radiation Protection Association [http://www.irpa.net/irpa10/cdrom/00325.pdf].
• Weaver, J. Ellsworth III, 1995, "A brief chronology of radiation and protection," Radiation Information Network, on line [http://www.physics.isu.edu/radinf/chrono4.htm].

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