The cancer mortality and incidence experience of workers at British Nuclear Fuels plc, 1946-2005

Journal of Radiological Protection

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 595-623

  Gillies, Michael ^a   Haylock, Richard ^a  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cancer incidence; Cancer mortality; Cohort study; Ionising radiation; Occupational exposure

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; ECONOMICS; IONIZING RADIATION; NUCLEAR FUELS; OCCUPATIONAL RISKS; RADIATION PROTECTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK PERCEPTION;

CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; COHORT STUDIES; DOSE RESPONSE RELATIONSHIPS; EXTERNAL RADIATION EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POISSON REGRESSION MODELS; RADIATION PROTECTION STANDARDS;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; RISK ASSESSMENT; TIME; UNITED KINGDOM; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; RISK ASSESSMENT; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84923846465     PISSN: 09524746     EISSN: 13616498     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0952-4746/34/3/595     Document Type: Review

References (39)

1. ICRP 2007 Recommendations of the international commission on radiological protection ICRP Publication103 Ann. ICRP 37 (2-4)
2. National Research Council (NRC) 2006 Health Risks from Exposure to Low Levels of Ionizing Radiation BEIR VII, Phase 2 Board on Radiation Effects Research (The National Academies: Washington, DC)
3. United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR) 2008 Effects of Ionizing Radiation. UNSCEAR 2006 Report to the General Assembly, with scientific annexes: (New York: United Nations)
4. Ozasa K et al 2012 Studies of the mortality of atomic bomb survivors, report 14, 1950-2003: an overview of cancer and noncancer diseases Radiat. Res. 177 229-43
5. Preston D L et al 2007 Solid cancer incidence in atomic bomb survivors: 1958-1998 Radiat. Res. 168 1-64
6. Weiss H A, Darby S C and Doll R 1994 Cancer mortality following x-ray treatment for ankylosing spondylitis Int. J. Cancer 59 327-38
7. Muirhead C R et al 2009 Mortality and cancer incidence following occupational radiation exposure: third analysis of the national registry for radiation workers Br. J. Cancer 100 206-12
8. Cardis E et al 2007 The 15-country collaborative study of cancer risk among radiation workers in the nuclear industry: estimates of radiation-related cancer risks Radiat. Res. 167 396-16
9. Douglas A J, Omar R Z and Smith P G 1994 Cancer mortality and morbidity among workers at the Sellafield plant of British Nuclear Fuels Br. J. Cancer 70 1232-43
10. McGeoghegan D and Binks K 2000 The mortality and cancer morbidity experience of workers at the Capenhurst uranium enrichment facility 1946-95 J. Radiol. Prot. 20 381-401
11. McGeoghegan D and Binks K 2000 The mortality and cancer morbidity experience of workers at the Springfields uranium production facility, 1946-95 J. Radiol. Prot. 20 111-37
12. McGeoghegan D and Binks K 2001 The mortality and cancer morbidity experience of employees at the Chapelcross plant of British Nuclear Fuels plc, 1955-95 J. Radiol. Prot. 21 221-50
13. Omar R Z, Barber J A and Smith P G 1999 Cancer mortality and morbidity among plutonium workers at the Sellafield plant of British Nuclear Fuels Br. J. Cancer 79 1288-301
14. Smith P G and Douglas A J 1986 Mortality of workers at the Sellafield plant of British Nuclear Fuels Br. Med. J. (Clin. Res. Ed) 293 845-54
15. McGeoghegan D, Gillies M, Riddell A E and Binks K 2003 Mortality and cancer morbidity experience of female workers at the British Nuclear Fuels Sellafield plant, 1946-1998 Am. J. Indust. Med. 44 653-63
16. McGeoghegan D, Binks K, Gillies M, Jones S and Whaley S 2008 The non-cancer mortality experience of male workers at British Nuclear Fuels plc, 1946-2005 Int. J. Epidemiol. 37 506-18
17. Kite A V and Brithcher A R 1996 Uncertainties in recorded photon radiation doses at Sellafield Radiat. Prot. Dosim. 1 23-32
18. Kite A V and Anderson RW 1996 An overview of retrospective occupational dosimetry at BNFL Proc. 9th International Radiation Protection Association (14-19 April 1996, Vienna, Austria) (France: International Radiation Protection Association)
19. Carpenter L, Higgins C, Douglas A, Fraser P, Beral V and Smith P 1994 Combined analysis of mortality in three United Kingdom nuclear industry workforces, 1946-1988 Radiat. Res. 138 224-38
20. ONS 2004 20th Century Mortality-100 years of mortality data in England and Wales by age, sex, year and underlying cause CD-ROM (with updates) (London: Office for National Statistics)
21. Hirosoft 1998 Epicure: Fast, interactive software for the analysis of medical, public health, epidemiologic, econometric, and reliability data v. 2.10 (Seattle, WA: Hirosoft International Corporation)
22. Hughes J S 1999 Ionising Radiation Exposure of the UK Population: 1999 Review, NRPB Report R311 (London: HMSO)
23. Wen C P, Tsai S P and Gibson R L 1983 Anatomy of the healthy worker effect: a critical review J. Occup. Med. 25 283-9
24. Shilnikova N S et al 2003 Cancer mortality risk among workers at the mayak nuclear complex Radiat. Res. 159 787-98
25. Preston D L, Shimizu Y, Pierce D A, Suyama A and Mabuchi K 2003 Studies of mortality of atomic bomb survivors. report 13: solid cancer and noncancer disease mortality: 1950-1997 Radiat. Res. 160 381-407
26. Muirhead C R et al 2009 Third Analysis of the National Registry For Radiation Workers: Occupational Exposure to Ionising Radiation in Relation to Mortality and Cancer Incidence (HPA-RPD-062)
27. Cardis E et al 1995 Effects of low doses and low dose rates of external ionizing radiation: cancer mortality among nuclear industry workers in three countries Radiat Res. 142 117-32
28. Beral V, Inskip H, Fraser P, Booth M, Coleman D and Rose G 1985 Mortality of employees of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, 1946-1979 Br. Med. J. (Clin. Res. Ed) 291 440-7
29. Inskip H, Beral V, Fraser P, Booth M, Coleman D and Brown A 1987 Further assessment of the effects of occupational radiation exposure in the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority mortality study Br. J. Indust. Med. 44 149-60
30. Fraser P, Carpenter L, Maconochie N, Higgins C, Booth M and Beral V 1993 Cancer mortality and morbidity in employees of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, 1946-86 Br. J. Cancer 67 615-24
31. Atkinson W D, Law D V, Bromley K J and Inskip H M 2004 Mortality of employees of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, 1946-1997 Occup. Environ. Med. 61 577-85
32. Arrighi H M and Hertz-Picciotto I 1994 The evolving concept of the healthy worker survivor effect Epidemiology 5 189-96
33. Armstrong B G 1998 Effect of measurement error on epidemiological studies of environmental and occupational exposures Occup. Environ. Med. 55 651
34. Jurek A M, Greenland S, Maldonado G and Church T R 2005 Proper interpretation of non-differential misclassification effects: expectations vs observations Int. J. Epidemiol. 34 680-7
35. Thierry-Chef I et al 2007 The 15-country collaborative study of cancer risk among radiation workers in the nuclear industry: study of errors in dosimetry Radiat. Res. 167 380-95
36. Thierry-Chef I, Pernicka F, Marshall M, Cardis E and Andreo P 2002 Study of a selection of 10 historical types of dosemeter: variation of the response to Hp(10) with photon energy and geometry of exposure Radiat. Prot. Dosim. 102 101-13
37. Partington P 2000 Effective occupational radiation controls at a UK nuclear recycling plant IRPA10 10th International Radiation Protection Association Congress
38. Zablotska L B, Lane R S D and Thompson P A 2014 A reanalysis of cancer mortality in Canadian nuclear workers (1956-1994) based on revised exposure and cohort data Br. J. Cancer 110 214-23
39. Wakeford R 2014 Nuclear worker studies: promise and pitfalls Br. J. Cancer 110 1-3