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RADIATION PROTECTION DOSIMETRY
Volume 132, Issue 2, Pages 220-227Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/ncn292
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The search for chemical risks factors as determinants of childhood leukaemia has been ongoing for over two decades. Results of epidemiological studies, published from 1998 to the present, evaluating parental smoking, outdoor sources of pollution, indoor contaminants and chemicals from drinking water are reported. Overall, results were mostly negative. This may be due to the relatively small study sizes to detect environmental effects, usually measured imprecisely. Another reason may be that such effects, which may be revealed among the genetically susceptible, have rarely accounted for genetic susceptibility. The few studies that have are also reported here. Suggestions are made for work in the immediate future, which include pooling of data and of analyses, as well as carrying out in-depth reviews of studies with the goal of understanding the reasons for discrepant results.
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