By Professor John Robertson
Yesterday, in Physician’s Weekly, a post on The Lancet Hematology‘s report of:
Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire in Fontenay-aux-Roses, France, and colleagues examined the associations between radiation dose and mortality due to hematologic malignancies in a cohort of 309,932 radiation-monitored workers employed for at least one year by nuclear facilities in France, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
They conclude:
For chronic myeloid leukemia and myelodysplastic syndromes alone or combined with acute myeloid leukemia, positive associations were also seen (excess relative rates per Gy, 9.57, 3.19, and 1.55, respectively).
What does an excess relative rate mean?
Here’s a simple explanation from ICRPaedia in 2023:
What is the excess relative risk per gy?
The excess proportion (or percentage) of the rate of radiation-induced disease in an exposed population divided by the rate of disease in an unexposed population that has the same background risk factors (age, sex, race, etc.). This is often expressed as ERR per Gy or per Sv.
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A friend’s father died in his early 50s from leukemia. He worked at Dounreay. We wondered even then if there were many others.
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From The International Journal Of Environmental Research And
Public Health a study from Switzerland….
.”Emerging Environmental Justice Issues in Nuclear Power and Radioactive Contamination”….this is a long read but worthwhile…..here is a tiny snippet…
.”Evidence suggests that individuals living near the nuclear power plants face difficult-to-avoid health risks associated with exposure to low level routine radioactive effluents emitted from plants. Given that no level of radiation exposure is considered safe, any excess exposure could have deleterious impacts on human health [6]. The effects of radiation at the cellular level could lead to irreversible damage and potential premature death. Tritium, to highlight a common isotope, is a carcinogen, mutagen, and teratogen and can easily be incorporated into human tissues causing cancers, chromosomal aberrations, birth defects and miscarriages, and mental retardation after in utero exposure
[6]. We observed that among the estimated 87.5 million people living within a 50-mile radius of a NPP (Table 1), 5.6 million (6.4%) are children under the age of five years.
Children have been found to be particularly vulnerable to radiation exposure as European studies on leukemia have found.”…..https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4962241/
JB
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Many thanks
Will check out
John
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