Cartwright, RA, Law, G orcid.org/0000-0001-7904-0264, Roman, E et al. (6 more authors) (2002) The United Kingdom Childhood Cancer Study of exposure to domestic sources of ionising radiation: 2: gamma radiation. British Journal of Cancer, 86 (11). pp. 1727-1731. ISSN 0007-0920
Abstract
This article reports measurements of household levels of gamma and cosmic rays at the addresses of children with cancer at the time of diagnosis and six months before, and of similar data at the addresses of control children. There is no indication of increased risk with increasing dose rates either in matched or unmatched analyses, with or without adjustment for deprivation. Sub-division by diagnostic group did not reveal any association with any specific types of malignancy. Studies of the relationship between household gamma rays and radon concentration show no evidence of any interactions.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2002 Cancer Research Campaign. From twelve months after its original publication, this work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ |
Keywords: | childhood cancer; gamma dose rate; radon interactions; acute lymphoblastic leukaemia; non-Hodgkin's lymphoma; central nervous system tumours |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Medicine and Health (Leeds) > School of Medicine (Leeds) > Leeds Institute of Genetics, Health and Therapeutics (LIGHT) > Division of Epidemiology & Biostatistics (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 13 Jul 2016 15:13 |
Last Modified: | 01 Mar 2019 12:53 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sj.bjc.6600277 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Cancer Research UK |
Identification Number: | 10.1038/sj.bjc.6600277 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:85716 |