Radioactivity could be to blame for blood and bone marrow cancers among
workers at the Sellafield nuclear plant in Cumbria. ¾«¶«´«Ã½s from the London
School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine who examined the medical records of 14
000 workers found “significant positive associations” between doses of radiation
and deaths from leukaemia and multiple myeloma (British Journal of
Cancer, vol 79, p 1288).
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