The International Journal of Cancer has published in its January issue of a scientific study establishing a very clear correlation between the frequency of acute childhood leukemia and proximity to nuclear power stations (1).
This rigorous epidemiological study, conducted by a team from INSERM (2), IRSN (3) and the National Register of hematological diseases of children in Villejuif, demonstrates for the period 2002-2007 in France the doubling of occurrence of childhood leukemia : the (…)