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saved bySemjon on 2006-07-12

• 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.
• carried out more
  detective work to find out what really happened during the war years
  when those factories were built.
• 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.
• 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.

• on 2006-11-08 Slavos1
  Read the whole article, a new view on leukaemia caused by people rather than radioactivity.