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

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 79, Issue 7-8, 1999, Pages 1288-1301

  Omar, R Z ^a,b   Barber, J A ^a,b   Smith, P G ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cancer incidence; Cohort; Mortality; Nuclear workers; Plutonium; Radiation

Indexed keywords

PLUTONIUM;

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER CANCER; HUMAN; LARYNX CANCER; LEUKEMIA; LIVER CANCER; MALE; MOUTH CANCER; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR INDUSTRY; PHARYNX CANCER; PLEURA CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; THYROID CANCER; UNITED KINGDOM; WORKER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; NUCLEAR ENERGY; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PLUTONIUM; RADIATION DOSAGE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0033060226     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6690207     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. Britcher AR, Dalton AP, Riddell AE, Battersby W and Strong R (1994) What do your plutonium in urine results tell you? A tour through 40 years of change at Sellafield. Radiat Protection Dosimetry 53: 1-4
2. Cardis E, Gilbert ES, Carpenter L, Howe G, Kato I, Armstrong BK, Beral V, Cowper G, Douglas A, Esteve J, Fix J, Fry SA, Kaldor J, Lave C, Smith PG, Voelz G and Wiggs LD (1995) Effects of low doses and low dose-rates of external ionizing radiation: cancer mortality among nuclear industry workers in three countries. Radiat Res 142: 117-132
3. Carpenter L, Higgins C, Douglas A, Fraser P, Beral V and Smith P (1994) Combined analysis of mortality in three UK nuclear industry workforces, 1946-88. Radiat Res 138: 224-238
4. Carpenter LM, Higgins CD, Douglas AJ, Maconochie NES, Omar RZ, Fraser P, Beral V and Smith PG (1998) Cancer mortality in relation to monitoring for radionuclide exposure in three UK nuclear industry workforces. Br J Cancer 78: 1224-1232
5. Clarke RH, Dunster J, Nenot J-C, Smith J and Voelz G (1996) The environmental safety and health risks of plutonium. J Radiol Protection 16: 91-105
6. Committee on Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiations (1988) Health Risks of Radon and Other Internally Deposited Alpha-Emitters. BEIR IV. National Academy Press: Washington DC
7. Douglas AJ, Omar RZ and Smith PG (1994) Cancer mortality and morbidity among workers at the Sellafield plant of British Nuclear Fuels. Br J Cancer 70: 1232-1243
8. Gardner MJ, Winter PD, Taylor CP and Acheson ED (1983) Atlas of Cancer Mortality in England and Wales. Wiley: Chichester
9. Gardner MJ, Winter PD and Barker DJP (1984) Atlas of Mortality from Selected Diseases in England and Wales, 1968-1978. Wiley: Chichester
10. Gilbert ES, Cragle DL and Wiggs LD (1993) Updated analyses of combined mortality data for workers at the Hanford site, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant. Radiat Res 136: 408-421
11. International Commission on Radiological Protection (1979) Limits for Intakes of Radionuclides by Workers. Publication 30. Pergamon Press: Oxford
12. International Commission on Radiological Protection (1986) The Metabolism of Plutonium and Related Elements, Publication 48. Pergamon Press: Oxford
13. Jones SR (1985) Derivation and validation of a urinary excretion function for plutonium applicable over tens of years post uptake. Radiat Protection Dosimetry 11: 19-27
14. Kendall GM, Muirhead CR, MacGibbon BH, O'Hagan JA, Conquest AJ, Goodill AA, Butland BK, Fell TP, Jackson DA, Webb MA, Haylock RGE, Thomas JM and Silk TJ (1992) Mortality and occupational exposure to radiation: first analysis of the National Registry for Radiation Workers. Br Med J 304: 220-225
15. Kite AV and Britcher AR (1996) Uncertainties in recorded photon radiation doses at Sellafield. Radiat Protection Dosimetry 67: 23-32
16. Koshurnikova NA, Shilnikova NS, Okatenko PV, Kresolv VV, Bolotnikova MG, Romanov SA and Sokolikov ME (1997) The risk of cancer among nuclear workers at 'Mayak' production asociation: preliminary results of an epidemiological study. In Implications of New Data on Radiation Cancer Risk. Boice JD (ed.). pp. 113-122. National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements: Bethesda MD
17. Lawson AW, Wraight JC, Wallace B, Bunker A and Strong R (1989) Plutonium deposition in man: comparison between excretion and autopsy studies. In Radiation Protection - Theory and Practice. Goldfinch EP ed., pp. 231-234. Institute of Physics Publishing: Bristol
18. Riddell AE and Britcher AR (1994) Pluto - a software package using the 'maximum likelihood method' to fit plutonium in urine data to an excretion function. Radiat Protection Dosimetry 53: 1-4
19. Riddell AE, Battersby WP, Britcher AR and Peace MS (1998) The assessment of dose from plutonium for a cancer and morbidity study among Sellafield plutonium workers. J Radiol Protection (in press).
20. Smith PG and Douglas AJ (1986) Mortality of workers at the Sellafield plant of the British Nuclear Fuels. Br Med J 293: 845-854
21. Voelz GL, Lawrence JNP and Johnson ER (1997) Fifty years of plutonium exposure to the Manhattan project plutonium workers: an update. Health Phys 73: 611-619
22. Wiggs LD, Johnson ER, Cox-De Vore CA and Voelz GL (1994) Mortality through 1990 among white male workers at the Los Alamos National Laboratory: considering exposures to plutonium and external ionizing radiation. Health Phys 67: 577-588
23. Wilkinson GS, Tietjen GL, Wiggs LD, Galke WA, Acquavella JF, Reyes M, Voelz GL and Waxweiler RJ (1987) Mortality among plutonium workers at a plutonium weapons facility. Am J Epidemiol 125: 231-250