The UKAEA and AWE mortality studies

The author discusses the M.R.C. commissioned mortality study of AWE and UKAEA employees, designed to see if there were relationships between death rates from cancer and recorded exposure to ionising radiation among employees who had worked at either establishment since operations began in the late 1940s. Comments are made on methods of data collection and validation, compilation of the study population, mortality compared with national rates, and mortality in relation to recorded radiation exposure. (UK)