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Science 13 January 1984:
Vol. 223. no. 4632, pp. 139 - 144
DOI: 10.1126/science.6691139
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Science, Vol 223, Issue 4632, 139-144
Copyright © 1984 by American Association for the Advancement of Science

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Childhood leukemia and fallout from the Nevada nuclear tests

CE Land, FW McKay, and SG Machado

Cancer mortality data from the National Center for Health Statistics, covering the period 1950 through 1978, were used to test a reported association between childhood leukemia and exposure to radioactive fallout from nuclear weapons tests in Nevada between 1951 and 1958. No pattern of temporal and geographic variation in risk supportive of the reported association was found. Comparison of these results with those presented in support of an association of risk with fallout suggests that the purported association merely reflects an anomalously low leukemia rate in southern Utah during the period 1944 to 1949.


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