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Cancer mortality and morbidity among plutonium workers at the Sellafield plant of British Nuclear Fuels.

Br J Cancer · 1999 · PMC2362215 · PMID 10098774

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a significant trendP = 0.02actually significant
With this long lag period, the only cancer site for which this gave a significant trend of increasing risk with dose was for myeloma (P = 0.02, Table 6), apart from all lymphatic and haematopoietic neoplasms which grouping includes myeloma.

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a negative trendno p-value reported
The only statistically significant finding was a negative trend between the risk of death from any cancer and cumulative radiation dose, assuming no lag period.

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