A highly significant positive trend was obtained for nearness to Sellafield, but in the absence of the six cases from Seascale ward the result of this test was far from being statistically significant.
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Leukaemia and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in young persons resident in small areas of West Cumbria in relation to paternal preconceptional irradiation.
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Several nominally significant ratios would be expected to be found by chance alone, given the number of comparisons carried out in this study, many of which are not independent.