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Scottish Cancer Registry, Information Services Division, NHS National Services Scotland, Edinburgh, UK
Correspondence to:
Dr D H Brewster, Scottish Cancer Registry, Information Services Division, NHS National Services Scotland, Gyle Square, 1 South Gyle Crescent, Edinburgh EH12 9EB, UK; David.Brewster@isd.csa.scot.nhs.uk
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Busby argues that we drew false conclusions from our study1 by ignoring a possible "Chernobyl effect", and goes on to draw his own conclusions from the data presented in the paper. We do not accept that our research was flawed, and point out serious shortcomings in Busby’s subsequent analysis and interpretation of the data.
In designing our study, we decided to consider the period 1975–89 as a whole. We were aware that it was possible that excess incidence of childhood leukaemia could have resulted from exposure to radioactive material from the Chernobyl incident, but regarded the likely magnitude of any such effect to be very small. Taking all ages combined, figures published by the Scottish Cancer Registry2 show a very similar incidence of leukaemia in Dumfries and Galloway before and after the incident in 1986: between 18 and 23 cases a year were observed in the three years preceding,
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