Titre du document / Document title
Leukaemia in young children living in the vicinity of German nuclear power plants
Auteur(s) / Author(s)
KAATSCH Peter (1) ;
SPIX Claudia (1) ;
SCHULZE-RATH Renate (1) ;
SCHMIEDEL Sven (1) ;
BLETTNER Maria (1) ;
Affiliation(s) du ou des auteurs / Author(s) Affiliation(s)
(1) Institute for Medical Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics, German Childhood Cancer Registry, Obere Zahlbacher Strasse 69, 55131 Mainz, ALLEMAGNE
Résumé / Abstract
A case control study was conducted where cases were children younger than 5 years (diseased between 1980 and 2003) registered at the german childhood cancer registry (GCCR). Population-based matched controls (1:3) were selected from the corresponding registrar's office. Residential proximity to the nearest nuclear power plant was determined for each subject individually (with a precision of about 25 m). The report is focused on leukaemia and mainly on cases in the inner 5-km zone around the plants. The study includes 593 leukaemia cases and 1,766 matched controls. All leukaemia combined show a statistically significant trend for 1/distance with a positive regression coefficient of 1.75 [lower 95%-confidence limit (CL): 0.65]; for acute lymphoid leukaemia 1.63 (lower 95%-CL: 0.39), for acute non-lymphocytic leukaemia 1.99 (lower 95%-CL: -0.41). This indicates a negative trend for distance. Cases live closer to nuclear power plants than the randomly selected controls. A categorical analysis shows a statistically significant odds ratio of 2.19 (lower 95%-CL: 1.51) for residential proximity within 5 km compared to residence outside this area. This result is largely attributed to cases in previous studies of the GCCR (especially in the inner zone) as there is clearly some overlap between those studies. The result was not to be expected under current radiation-epidemiological knowledge. Considering that there is no evidence of relevant accidents and that possible confounders could not be identified, the observed positive distance trend remains unexplained.
Revue / Journal Title
International journal of cancer
ISSN
0020-7136
CODEN IJCNAW
Source / Source
2008, vol. 122, n
o4, pp. 721-726 [6 page(s) (article)] (26 ref.)
Langue / Language
Anglais
Editeur / Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell, Hoboken, NJ, ETATS-UNIS
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INIST-CNRS, Cote INIST : 13027, 35400017392102.0020
Nº notice refdoc (ud4) : 19962061
