Leukaemia mortality around French nuclear sites

Hattchouel, Jean-Marc; Laplanche, Agnès; Hill, Catherine

doi:10.1038/bjc.1995.129

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“…The use of reliable incidence data rather than mortality data concerning over twice as many nuclear sites considerably increased the power of this study compared to previous French multisite studies (Hill and Laplanche, 1990;Hattchouel et al, 1995). The period, age groups and areas under study, namely children aged 0 -14 years living within 20 km of one of the 29 nuclear sites during the years 1990 to 1998, were all chosen a priori conferring statistical validity and interpretability to our results.…”

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“…Several studies have systematically examined the evidence relating to all of a country's nuclear installations. Mortality studies in the USA (Jablon et al, 1991), Canada (McLaughlin et al, 1993), France (Hattchouel et al, 1995), Spain (Lopez-Abente et al, 1999) and Japan (Iwasaki et al, 1995), and incidence studies in England and Wales (Bithell et al, 1994), Scotland (Sharp et al, 1996), Germany (Michaelis et al, 1992;Kaatsch et al, 1998), Sweden (Waller et al, 1995), Canada (McLaughlin et al, 1993) and the USA (Jablon et al, 1991) found no statistical evidence of an excess of leukaemia among children living around nuclear sites. In France, despite indications of increased incidence for certain combinations of age groups and geographical areas, extensive investigation of the La Hague site (Viel and Richardson, 1990;Viel et al, 1993Viel et al, , 1995Pobel and Viel, 1997;Guizard et al, 2001;Boutou et al, 2002) finally yielded, as for the Marcoule site (Bouges et al, 1999), no evidence of a significant excess of cases of childhood leukaemia.…”

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Incidence of childhood leukaemia in the vicinity of nuclear sites in France, 1990–1998

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. There was no evidence of a trend in standardised incidence ratio with distance from the sites for all children or for any of the three age groups studied. Similar results were obtained when the start-up year of the electricity-generating nuclear sites and their electric nuclear power were taken into account. No evidence was found of a generally increased risk of childhood leukaemia around the 29 French nuclear sites under study during 1990 -1998.

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Incidence of childhood leukaemia in the vicinity of nuclear sites in France, 1990–1998

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“…Other multi-sites studies were conducted in Scotland (19), the United States (34), Ontario, Canada (35), France (36,37), Germany (38,39), Japan (40), Sweden (41) and Spain (42). As can be seen in Table 1, with the exception of one study, the leukaemia rates near the nuclear installations did not differ from what was expected (32).…”

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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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“…Relation with irradiation has now been excluded by the COMARE studies [83]. Furthermore, surveys carried out around all of the several hundred nuclear plants in the UK (1994), the USA (1991), France (1995), Canada (1993) and Japan (1995) did not observe an increased incidence of cancers or leukemias in their vicinities [84,85].…”

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Radiation risks in perspective: radiation-induced cancer among cancer risks

Tubiana¹

2000

Radiat Environ Biophys

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The majority of the public in industrial countries believes that pollution and low doses of radiation are threats to good health. As a matter of fact, when these putative risks are compared to those originating from lifestyle, they appear very small. In particular, the risks associated with low doses of irradiation, even when they are assessed with the most pessimistic models, appear extremely small. Public anxiety is fuelled by the uncertainty regarding the magnitude of this risk and the use of the linear no threshold (LNT) hypothesis, which gives credence to the concept that even the smallest doses are harmful. There are a number of scientific and epidemiological data currently under debate that are not consistent with the LNT hypothesis. For example, no difference in the incidence of cancers or of birth defects has been observed between regions with low or high natural irradiation. This inconsistency between perceptions and data underlines the role of psychological factors studied since 1957 which should be placed in the perspective of the public's present attitude toward risk and technology. Social amplification or attenuation of risk may occur in several ways. Fearful concern about radiation began in 1955, with the beginning of the Cold War, when the possibility of a nuclear holocaust appeared very real. Analysis of the data shows that these fears of technology could have a detrimental effect; they should therefore be investigated and understood.

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Leukaemia mortality around French nuclear sites

Cited by 19 publications

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Incidence of childhood leukaemia in the vicinity of nuclear sites in France, 1990–1998

Incidence of childhood leukaemia in the vicinity of nuclear sites in France, 1990–1998

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

Radiation risks in perspective: radiation-induced cancer among cancer risks

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