Sex ratios and the risks of haematological malignancies.

Although the sex of an individual confers one of the greatest of the known risks for contracting leukaemia and lymphomas, very little attention is paid to these risks. It is the purpose of this paper to stimulate further research in this area. The sex rate ratios are presented for the commoner haematological malignancies.

The onset of the excess of childhood cancer in Seascale, Cumbria.

Background: The objective of this study was to formally investigate the onset of the Seascale cluster of childhood and young person's cancer. This has not previously been attempted.

Methods: A mortality study within the Whitehaven registration district was set up and death records were abstracted for 1906-1970.

Tobacco and the risk of acute leukaemia in adults.

Self-reported smoking histories were collected during face-to-face interviews with 807 patients with acute leukaemia and 1593 age- and sex-matched controls. Individuals who had smoked regularly at some time during their lives were more likely to develop acute leukaemia than those who had never smoked (odds ratio (OR) = 1.2, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.

Epidemiology of multiple myeloma in parts of England, 1984-1993.

This paper presents a new analysis of aspects of the descriptive epidemiology of multiple myeloma (MM) for parts of the U.K., 1984-1993.

Epidemiology of Multiple Myeloma.

This review critically assesses the recent epidemiological evidence for MM in terms of its occurrence and causation. The major feature of the descriptive epidemiology is the excess rates in the US black population. Not a great deal is certain about the causes of MM but there are links with exposures of specific types to ionising irradiation and also farming as an occupation but there is very little evidence to links to cigarette smoking and immune depletion.