Cancer incidence in municipalities near two former nuclear materials processing facilities in Pennsylvania--an update

Health Physics
John D BoiceWilliam J Blot

Abstract

Previous studies of cancer incidence among persons living in municipalities within one mile of two nuclear materials processing and fabrication plants in Pennsylvania were extended for the years 1998-2004. It had been shown that mailing addresses for residents of rural areas often did not reflect the actual municipality of residence and, if not corrected, would bias study results. The previous studies had corrected for this bias. Accordingly for the extended study, we obtained mailing addresses from the Pennsylvania Department of Health (PDH) for 866 persons with cancer who presumably lived in one of eight minor civil divisions (MCDs) near or encompassing the former nuclear facilities, designated as Area 1 in previous studies conducted by the PDH. Street addresses were geocoded and local postmasters were asked to place rural delivery addresses, post office boxes and street addresses that could not be geocoded into the correct MCD of actual residence. Over 15% of the mailing addresses were found not to be within the boundaries of the Area 1 municipalities. After the mailing addresses of individuals with cancer were placed in their proper MCD of residence, the number of persons diagnosed with cancer (n = 708) and confirmed to hav...Continue Reading

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Oct 30, 2003·Journal of Radiological Protection : Official Journal of the Society for Radiological Protection·John D BoiceWilliam J Blot
Feb 27, 2004·Occupational and Environmental Medicine·L E PinkertonL T Stayner
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Sep 5, 2007·Journal of Radiological Protection : Official Journal of the Society for Radiological Protection·John D BoiceWilliam J Blot
Aug 21, 2008·Journal of Radiological Protection : Official Journal of the Society for Radiological Protection·John D BoiceWilliam J Blot

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