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• 12 Jul 06
  

  Semjon

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  • He compared the leukaemia mortality among around 12,000 wartime  children with that in the more than 6,000 children born between 1946  and 1955, when the visiting servicemen had left and the local  population fell to its normal level. There was a 3.6-fold increase  in the risk of leukaemia among the wartime children, compared with  post-war children.
  • studied childhood leukaemia in  Orkney and Shetland during the Second World War when around 60,000  troops were based there to guard against invasion from  German-occupied Norway.
  • carried out more  detective work to find out what really happened during the war years  when those factories were built.
  • What emerged  has confirmed his suspicions: it is no surprise that the effects of  the factories on the risk of leukaemia could not be detected in the  work of Comare and the Leeds team. Wartime records and electoral  registers reveal that Seascale was relatively unaffected by the  construction of the ordnance factories and remained a small village  during the war.

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  Semjon on 2006-11-08
  Read the whole article, a new view on leukaemia caused by people rather than radioactivity.

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