Residential Exposure to Natural Background Radiation and Risk of Childhood Acute Leukemia in France, 1990 – 2009
Conclusions: Our findings do not support the hypothesis that residential exposure to NBR increases the risk of AL, despite the large size of the study, fine scale exposure estimates and wide range of exposures over France. However, our results at the time of diagnosis do not rule out a slight association with gamma radiation at the time of birth, which would be more in line with the recent findings in the UK and Switzerland.
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Citation: Demoury C, Marquant F, Ielsch G, Goujon S, Debayle C, Faure L, Coste A, Laurent O, Guillevic J, Laurier D, Hémon D, Clavel J. Residential Exposure to Natural Background Radiation and Risk of Childhood Acute Leukemia in France, 1990 – 2009. Environ Health Perspect; http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/EHP296
Received: 1 April 2016
Revised: 20 June 2016
Accepted: 11 July 2016
Published: 2 August 2016
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