caa a22 4500 477129609 CHVBK 20180405111701.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170330e19970301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1023/A:1018407927076 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1023/A:1018407927076 Further follow-up of New Zealand participants in United Kingdom atmospheric nuclear weapons tests in the Pacific [Elektronische Daten] [Neil Pearce, Regina Winkelmann, Josephine Kennedy, Simon Lewis, Gordon Purdie, Tania Slater, Ian Prior, Jim Fraser] We previously reported a study of deaths and cancer incidence in Royal NewZealand (RNZ) Navy personnel who participated in atmospheric nuclear weaponstests conducted by the United Kingdom in the Pacific in 1957-58. The studyinvolved 528 men known to have participated in the tests, and a control groupof 1,504 men who were in the RNZ Navy during the same period but were notinvolved in the tests. The original follow-up was carried out for the period1957-87 with an observed increase in risk of leukemia and other hematologiccancers, but little or no increase of non-hematologic cancers or non-cancerdeaths in test participants. Follow-up now has been extended for the period1988-92. For the total follow-up period, there were 97 deaths in testparticipants and 256 deaths in controls, a relative risk (RR) of 1.1 (90percent confidence interval [CI] = 0.9-1.3). The RR of death from causesother than cancer was 1.0 (CI = 0.8-1.3), whereas the RR of cancer death was1.2 (CI = 0.8-1 .7) and that of cancer incidence was 1.0 (CI = 0.8-1.4). Forcancers other than hematologic malignancies, the RR was 1.0 (CI = 0.7-1.5)for mortality, and 1.0 (CI = 0.7-1.3) for incidence. However, there wereeight deaths from hematologic cancers in test participants (RR = 3.8, CI =1.4-10.8), including four leukemias (RR = 5.6, CI = 1.0-41.7). The RR forincidence of hematologic cancers was 1.9 (CI = 0.8-4.3), and that forleukemia was 5.6 (CI = 1.0-41.6). We concluded that the evidence is stillconsistent with the hypothesis that some leukemias and other hematologiccancers may have resulted from participation in the nuclear weapons testprogram, but the further follow-up strengthens the evidence that there is noincreased risk for non-hematologic cancers or for causes of death other thancancer in the test participants. Chapman and Hall, 1997 Hematologic cancers nationallicence leukemia nationallicence men nationallicence New Zealand nationallicence non-Hodgkin's lymphoma nationallicence nuclear tests nationallicence Pearce Neil Department of Medicine, Wellington School of Medicine, Wellington, New Zealand aut Winkelmann Regina Department of Medicine, Wellington School of Medicine, Wellington, New Zealand aut Kennedy Josephine Department of Medicine, Wellington School of Medicine, Wellington, New Zealand aut Lewis Simon Department of Medicine, Wellington School of Medicine, Wellington, New Zealand aut Purdie Gordon Department of Public Health, Wellington School of Medicine, Wellington, New Zealand aut Slater Tania Department of Medicine, Wellington School of Medicine, Wellington, New Zealand aut Prior Ian Department of Public Health, Wellington School of Medicine, Wellington, New Zealand aut Fraser Jim New Zealand Health Information Service, Wellington, New Zealand aut Cancer Causes & Control Kluwer Academic Publishers 8/2(1997-03-01), 139-145 0957-5243 8:2<139 1997 8 10552 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1018407927076 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1018407927076 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Pearce Neil Department of Medicine, Wellington School of Medicine, Wellington, New Zealand aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Winkelmann Regina Department of Medicine, Wellington School of Medicine, Wellington, New Zealand aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Kennedy Josephine Department of Medicine, Wellington School of Medicine, Wellington, New Zealand aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Lewis Simon Department of Medicine, Wellington School of Medicine, Wellington, New Zealand aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Purdie Gordon Department of Public Health, Wellington School of Medicine, Wellington, New Zealand aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Slater Tania Department of Medicine, Wellington School of Medicine, Wellington, New Zealand aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Prior Ian Department of Public Health, Wellington School of Medicine, Wellington, New Zealand aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Fraser Jim New Zealand Health Information Service, Wellington, New Zealand aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Cancer Causes & Control Kluwer Academic Publishers 8/2(1997-03-01), 139-145 0957-5243 8:2<139 1997 8 10552 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer