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).  https://www.physiciansweekly.com/protracted-radiation-exposure-linked-to-hematologic-cancer-mortality/ What does an excess … Continue reading Massive French study finds nuclear workers almost 10 times more likely to develop chronic myeloid leukemia, to further undermine Labour’s nuclear strategy for Scotland