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Occup Environ Med 60:521-527 doi:10.1136/oem.60.7.521
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Cancer risk around the nuclear power plants of Trillo and Zorita (Spain)

Table 6

Comparison between the areas surrounding Trillo for risk of more and less radioinducible malignant tumours, and for each of the three study periods

T10–T30 T10–T20 T10–ZCI T10–Rest of Trillo
Period 1 (1989–93)
More radioinducible tumours
    Cases 28–49 28–21 28–49 28–119
    Controls 23–60 23–19 23–39 23–118
    OR 1.49 1.10 0.96 1.21
    95% CI 0.72 to 3.07 0.44 to 2.75 0.46 to 2.06 0.66 to 2.21
    p value 0.31 0.98 0.99 0.65
Less radioinducible tumours
    Cases 8–13 8–8 8–22 8–43
    Controls 23–56 23–19 23–38 23–113
    OR 1.50 0.83 0.60 0.91
    95% CI 0.53 to 4.24 0.26 to 2.62 0.24 to 1.51 0.38 to 2.17
    p value 0.60 0.98 0.42 0.99
Period 2 (1994–96)
More radioinducible tumours
    Cases 22–37 22–18 22–26 22–81
    Controls 23–53 23–20 23–34 23–107
    OR 1.37 1.06 1.25 1.26
    95% CI 0.67 to 2.82 0.45 to 2.52 0.58 to 2.72 0.66 to 2.43
    p value 0.50 0.99 0.71 0.29
Less radioinducible tumours
    Cases 4–13 4–3 4–2 4–18
    Controls 33–75 33–31 33–51 33–157
    OR 0.70 1.25 3.09 1.06
    95% CI 0.23 to 2.14 0.26 to 5.97 0.57 to 16.64 0.56 to 5.74
    p value 0.76 0.99 0.79 0.99
Period 3 (1997–99)
More radioinducible tumours
    Cases 25–23 25–18 25–24 25–65
    Controls 8–34 8–21 8–27 8–82
    OR 4.61 3.65 3.52 3.94
    95% CI 1.96 to 10.90 1.42 to 9.38 1.96 to 8.55 1.85 to 8.38
    p value 0.003 0.021 0.017 0.002
Less radioinducible tumours
    Cases 1–6 1–2 1–9 1–17
    Controls 10–42 10–24 10–34 10–100
    OR 0.70 1.20 .38 0.59
    95% CI 0.09 to 5.31 0.09 to 15.88 0.07 to 2.08 0.10 to 3.48
    p value 0.99 0.99 0.64 0.97

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