(448.4450) WISE-Amsterdam - The study 'Incidence of Leukaemia in Young People around the La Hague Nuclear Waste Reprocessing Plant: A sensitivity analysis' was conducted by Professor Jean-François Viel, Dominique Pobel, André Carré. Prof Viel is head of the Biostatistics and Epidemiology Unit of the Faculty of Medicine of Besançon. The study has been published in the magazines 'Science et Vie' and 'Statistics in Medicine'. His work was hampered by the lack of a national cancer register in France and he was forced to use researchers surveying 60,000 young people under 25 in an area 35 km around the reprocessing plant.
The objectives were to investigate the incidence of childhood leukaemia in young people around the French nuclear waste reprocessing plant for the period 1978-1992 and to check the sensitivity of the results to the choice of disease clustering tests and reference rates. On the whole the results are in general agreement and demonstrate the apparent existence of distinct cluster of childhood leukaemia, contiguous and south-east of the la Hague nuclear facility. He found that the closer to the plant people lived the higher the leukemia rates, although Prof. Viel says more research is needed before it is possible to link the plant to the increase leukaemia rates.
Source: N-Base Briefing, feb. 1996
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