Residential distance at birth from overhead high-voltage powerlines : childhood cancer risk in Britain 1962-2008

Bunch, K. J. and Keegan, Thomas J. and Swanson, J. and Vincent, T. J. and Murphy, M. F. G. (2014) Residential distance at birth from overhead high-voltage powerlines : childhood cancer risk in Britain 1962-2008. British Journal of Cancer, 110 (5). pp. 1402-1408. ISSN 0007-0920

Abstract

We extend our previous study of childhood leukaemia and proximity to high-voltage powerlines by including more recent data and cases and controls from Scotland, by considering 132-kV powerlines as well as 275 and 400 kV and by looking at greater distances from the powerlines.