TY - JOUR T1 - Under-ascertainment of multiple myeloma among participants in UK atmospheric atomic and nuclear weapons tests JF - Occupational and Environmental Medicine JO - Occup Environ Med SP - e18 LP - e18 DO - 10.1136/oem.60.12.e18 VL - 60 IS - 12 AU - S R Roff Y1 - 2003/12/01 UR - http://oem.bmj.com/content/60/12/e18.abstract N2 - An inter-comparison of cases of multiple myeloma among UK participants in the UK’s atmospheric atomic and nuclear weapons tests ascertained by direct follow up methods detected at least a third more cases than a strategy relying solely on data linkage between the Office of National Statistics and the Service Records Offices. These finding have implications for the conduct and robustness of follow up studies of long term health effects among participants in nuclear weapons tests. ER -