Leukemia
Childhood leukemia incidence not increased around French nuclear installations
Published in Clinical Oncology Week, July 10th, 2006
According to a study from France, "The present study investigated for the first time the incidence of childhood leukaemia (1990-2001) around French nuclear installations using a geographic zoning based on estimated doses to the red bone marrow due to gaseous radioactive discharges. The observed number of cases of acute leukaemia (O=750) in 40 km2 centred on 23 French nuclear installations between 1990 and 2001 was lower than expected (E=795.01), although not significantly so (standardised incidence ratio SIR=0.94, 95% confidence interval (0.88-1.01))."
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