THE SIGNIFICANCE OF LEUKAEMIA PRECONCEPTION EXPOSURE RISKS IN THE JAPANESE BOMB SURVIVORS, THE SELLAFIELD AND THE DOUNREAY WORKFORCES
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Published:1992
M. P. Little, M. W. Charles, 1992. "THE SIGNIFICANCE OF LEUKAEMIA PRECONCEPTION EXPOSURE RISKS IN THE JAPANESE BOMB SURVIVORS, THE SELLAFIELD AND THE DOUNREAY WORKFORCES", INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE EFFECTS OF LOW DOSE IONISING RADIATION: IMPLICATIONS FOR HUMAN HEALTH
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This paper aims to determine the statistical compatibility between the apparent risks of childhood leukaemia resulting from paternal pre-conception exposure to radiation in the Sellafield workforce found in the recent study by Gardner et al (ref. 1) and those in the offspring of the Japanese bomb survivors (ref. 2), considering also the information provided on this link by the recent Caithness study (ref. 3), which looked at the Dounreay workforce.
In order to do this a variety of relative risk models are fitted to the various datasets. It will be assumed that the relative risk for the bomb survivors in paternal gonadal dose-group k and maternal gonadal dose-group 1 is given by:
