Cancer Mortality Around La Hague Nuclear Facilities

Dousset, M.

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“…To date, however, there is no conclusive or consistent epidemiological evidence to support increased cancer risk in those populations. In contrast to the reports (9-22) that showed an increased risk for leukemia, certain specific cancers, and/or all cancers, other studies (23-30) showed negative results. The most frequent study types or designs undertaken were ecological or cross-sectional and a few case-control.…”

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Cancer Risk in Adult Residents near Nuclear Power Plants in Korea - A Cohort Study of 1992-2010

Ahn

2012

J Korean Med Sci

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This study evaluated cancer risk for adult residents near Nuclear Power Plants (NPPs) in Korea through a valid prospective cohort study during 1992-2010. The study cohort was composed of 11,367 adults living within a five km radius from the NPPs for the exposed and 24,809 adults for the non-exposed or reference cohort set at two different levels of proximity; 5-30 km radius and more than 30 km radius away from NPPs. In 303,542.5 person-years of follow-up, a total of 2,298 cancer cases of all sites, or 1,377 radio-inducible cancers diagnosed during 1992-2008 were ascertained. Multiple adjusted hazard ratios and 95% confidence intervals were estimated using multivariate Cox proportional hazard model. There were no epidemiological evidence for increased risk of cancer due to radiation from NPPs. Radiological study results or surveillance data of radiation doses around NPPs could be well documented for risk estimation of radio-inducible cancers, instead of epidemiological study results of the long-time required. Continuous surveillance of quantitative measures of dose levels around NPPs and radiation exposures to the residents is warranted.

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Cancer Risk in Adult Residents near Nuclear Power Plants in Korea - A Cohort Study of 1992-2010

Ahn

2012

J Korean Med Sci

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“…Our results confirm those of a previous study (Hill and Laplanche, 1990) and of other French studies (Dousset, 1989;Viel and Richardson, 1990;Viel et al, 1993) and are reassuring. With an increase of approximately 50% in person-years and in leukaemia deaths, the power of the present study is reasonable.…”

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Leukaemia mortality around French nuclear sites

Hattchouel

Laplanche²,

Hill³

1995

Br J Cancer

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Material Selection of nuclear installationsWe studied the main sites operating in 1985 (Anonymous, undated, 1992(Anonymous, undated, , 1993. Figure 1 shows the 13 sites selcted, with the year in which each installation started operating and the nature of the activity. Next to the Tricastin site, a uranium enrichment factory (Pierrelatte) starud operating in the early 1960s, and is still in operation. As the main source of pollution in the uranium enrichment factory is chemical, this site was not studied until the Tricastin nuclear reactor came into operation.

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“…Several descriptive studies conducted between 1989 and 1995 did not show any excess risk of leukaemia near the reprocessing plant (36,37,90,91) (Table 5). In 1995, a new cluster study observed an elevated incidence of leukaemia in the 10-km zone (92).…”

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Risk of Childhood Leukaemia in the Vicinity of Nuclear Installations: Findings and Recent Controversies

Laurier¹,

Grosche

Hall

2002

Acta Oncologica

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The identification of a local excess of cancer cases, possibly associated with ionizing radiation, always receives substantial media coverage and communication about clusters is difficult. We reviewed studies that examined the risk of leukaemia among young people near nuclear installations. An excess of leukaemia exists near some nuclear installations, at least for the reprocessing plants at Sellafield and Dounreay and the nuclear power plant Krümmel. Nonetheless, the results of multi-site studies invalidate the hypothesis of an increased risk of leukaemia related to nuclear discharge. Up until now, analytic studies have not found an explanation for the leukaemia clusters observed near certain nuclear installations. The hypothesis of an infectious aetiology associated with population mixing has been proposed, but needs to be investigated further. The review illustrates two recent examples in France (La Hague reprocessing plant) and in Germany (Krümmel power plant), where controversies developed after reports of increased leukaemia risks. These examples show the importance of recalling the current epidemiological knowledge and of using systematic recording of cases to replace the alleged excesses in a more general framework. Some elements should also be suggested from the recent French and German experiences to reinforce credibility in the results.

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Cancer Mortality Around La Hague Nuclear Facilities

Abstract: Cancer death rates from the Beaumont-Hague "canton," where a nuclear facility is located, were compared with those for the Manche "département." No significant increase was found in cancer deaths during 1970-1982 for leukemias and in 1975-1982 for all other types of malignant tumors.

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Cancer Risk in Adult Residents near Nuclear Power Plants in Korea - A Cohort Study of 1992-2010

Cancer Risk in Adult Residents near Nuclear Power Plants in Korea - A Cohort Study of 1992-2010

Leukaemia mortality around French nuclear sites

Risk of Childhood Leukaemia in the Vicinity of Nuclear Installations: Findings and Recent Controversies

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