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... statistically significant increased risk of leukemia death among participants at land test series (tests conducted at the Nevada Test Site) compared to land series referents; however, sea series participants (tests conducted at the Pa ~Series selected were Operations GREENHOUSE (1951)
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... statistically significant increased risk of all-cause mortality among participants at sea series (tests conducted at the Pacific Proving Ground) compared to sea series referents; and .
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... Only a study cohort four times the size of the one available would have been likely to identify the observed leukemia risk as statistically significant. Although dose data might have increased the study's statistical power to detect an increased risk among participants (if there were an increased risk)
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... Stronger supporting evidence could be acquired from a further study that would make use of data on radiation dose if those data could be developed. A1though the oversight committee concluded that the dose data in their current form were unsuitable for epidemiologic analysis, it also concluded that carefully carried out custom dose reconstructions done anew for selected participants, using consistent methodology, could provide usable dose data.
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