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Table 4 Cancer mortality in employees and dependents, as given by Goldsmith

From: Microwaves in the cold war: the Moscow embassy study and its interpretation. Review of a retrospective cohort study

 

Moscow

 

Other embassies

Both groups

 

obs

exp

P

obs

exp

P

obs

exp

P

All cancers

         

Employees

17

19

 

47

41.1

 

64

60.10

 

Dependents: lived in

5

1.5

*

14

5.5

*

19

7.00

*

Dependents: lived out

7

3

*

19

6.1

*

26

9.10

*

Children: lived in

2

0.5

 

1

1.3

 

3

1.80

 

Children: lived out

2

0.83

 

2

1.7

 

4

2.53

 

all children

4

1.33

*

3

3

 

7

4.33

 

Totals

33

24.83

 

83

55.7

*

116

80.53

*

Leukaemia

         

all employees and dependents

4

1.5

*

6

2.64

*

10

4.14

*

Brain tumours

         

all employees and dependents

2

1.35

 

6

2.27

 

8

3.62

*

Breast cancer

         

female employees and adult dependents

3

1.41

 

9

3.44

 

12

4.85

*

  1. * P<0.05.
  2. From Goldsmith 11 . The original also gives leukaemia, brain tumours, breast cancer subdivided as shown for all cancer.
  3. Obs = observed; exp = expected.
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