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Leukemia
Paternal Irradiation Not Linked to Childhood Leukemia
November 24th, 1997
Results of a national study in Britain of people who work in environments where they are exposed to radiation before the conception of their children do not support an earlier suggestion that such radiation causes childhood leukemia and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. The study was published in the British Medical Journal during the week of November 8, 1997, by Dr. G.J. Draper, director, Childhood Cancer Research Group, University of Oxford, United Kingdom ("Cancer in the Offspring of Radiation Workers: a Record Linkage Study," BMJ, 1997;7117:1181-8). The BMJ editor wrote that the earlier study, by Martin Gardner, "suggested that the increase in leukemia...
Source: Cancer Weekly (1997-11-24)
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