COMARE Report

The Journal of Radiological Protection (JRP) published the following information in the News and Information section in volume 37 number 1: 

The COMARE Seventeen Report was published on 30th September 2016. In this report, the Committee on Medical Aspects of Radiation in the Environment presents a review of the incidence of childhood leukaemia and other cancers around the Sellafield and Dounreay nuclear installations, updating previous analyses with data from 1963 to 2006.

The report also includes:

• an analysis of the incidence of thyroid cancer in northwest England
• an update on cancer risk from radiation exposure to children in the vicinities of Sellafield and Dounreay
• a review of paternal preconceptional irradiation and consideration of population mixing in relation to childhood leukaemia.

R. Wakeford