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Table 6 Risk of chronic lymphocytic leukemia in epidemiological studies of radiation exposure

From: Radiation-related occupational cancer and its recognition criteria in South Korea

Cohort (patients or workers)

Study

Events

Cohort

size

Number of events

Risk

Ankylosing spondylitis

Weiss et al. (1995) [69]

Mortality

15,577

7

RR=1.44 (95% CI: 0.62, 2.79)

Benign locomotor lesions

Damber et al. (1995) [70]

Incidence

20,024

50

SIR=1.07 (95% CI: 0.80, 1.41)

Benign gynecological disease

Inskip et al. (1993) [71]

Mortality

12,955

21

RR=1.1 (90% CI: 0.5, 3.0)

Breast cancer

Curtis et al. (1989) [72]

Incidence

22,753

10

RR=1.84 (90% CI: 0.5, 6.7)

Uterine corpus cancer

Curtis et al. (1994) [73]

Incidence

110,000

54

RR=0.90 (95% CI: 0.4, 1.9)

International Radiation

Boice et al. (1988) [42]

   

OR=1.03 (90% CI: 0.3, 3.9)

Study of Cervical Cancer Patients

Incidence

11,030

52

Chernobyl liquidators

Romanenko et al. (2008) [74]

Incidence

110,645

39

ERR/Sv=4.09 (95% CI: <0, 14.41)

Chernobyl liquidators

Kesminiene et al. (2008) [20]

Incidence

146,000

21

ERR/Sv=4.7 (90% CI: -®, 76.1)

France nuclear workers

Flamant et al. (2013) [30]

Mortality

59,021

18

ERR/Sv=-1.36 (90% CI: <0, 14.94)

IARC 15-country

nuclear

workers

Cardis et al. (2007) [23]

Mortality

407,391

47

ERR/Sv=-1.0 (90% CI: -5.0, 3.7)

U.K. NRRW

Muirhead et al.

(2009) [63]

Mortality

174,541

69

ERR/Sv=<-1.92 (90% CI: <-1.92, 1.23)

 

Incidence

174,541

128

ERR/Sv=-0.117

  

(90% CI: -1.42, 2.71)

INWORKS

Leuraud et al. (2015) [24]

Mortality

308,297

138

ERR/Gy=-1.06 (90% CI: <0, 1.81)

  1. RR, relative risk; OR, odds ratio; ERR, excess relative risk; CI, confidence interval; IARC, International Agency for Research on Cancer; NRRW, National Registry for Radiation Workers; INWORKS, International Nuclear Workers Study; ; SIR, standardized incidence ratio