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Leukaemia in East Suffolk
| Auteur | M.F.H.Bush |
| Datum | september 1983 |
| Classificatie | 2.05.8.20/14 (GROOT-BRITTANNIË - SIZEWELL) |
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Uit de publicatie:
EAST SUFFOLK HEALTH AUTHORITY LEUKAEMIA IN EAST SUFFOLK INTRODUCTION Interest in the epidemiology of leukaemia in East Suffolk was aroused by a Press report that two workers at Sizewell Power Station had died of leukaemia and a third patient was suffering from the disease. This inevitably raised the question - was there anything in the Sizewell area which predisposed to a higher risk of leukaemia than the average? To concentrate on the occupational hazards of the nuclear power industry would be t o presuppose that there was such a problem and for that reason, it was important to study the distribution of leukaemia generally throughout the area and then only if there appeared to be an anomaly would it be appropriate to advance the hypothesis that there was either an environmental or occupational factor operating to increase the risk of leukaemia. Leukaemia is the term applied to a group of malignant disorders affecting the blood forming tissues of the body and is characterised by increased numbers of ill formed white blood corpuscles in the circulation. It is not very common, the figures for England and Wales 1968 to 1978 (1) for all forms of leukaemia varying between five and eight cases per 100,000 of the population as compared with 100 to 114 for lung cancer and 400 for cancers of all kinds. These figures are for males, females have slightly lower leukaemia rates. There are several forms of leukaemia, the disease being classified by the type of white blood cell principally affected. The disease is also divided in acute and chronic forms. The two commonest cell types are lymphatic leukaemia and myeloid leukaemia. Overall, myeloid is slightly more common than lymphatic leukaemia. In early childhood, acute lymphatic leukaemia occurs more commonly but the chronic form of both types become increasingly common in the older age groups. These age related differences are important to recognise since when focussing down into small geographical areas, the age structure of the population can give rise to substantial variations in the crude notification rates for leukaemia. The overall picture of all the leukaemias lumped together is of a disease with a small peak in childhood, followed by a gradual rise in adult life with the rate increasing with age.
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