[Report 1972] / Medical Officer of Health, West Sussex County Council.

  • Newhouse, Howard L.
Date:
1972
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Credit: [Report 1972] / Medical Officer of Health, West Sussex County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Crude Survival Rates for Skin, Trunk including Breast [172-6 & 174] {South Metropolitan Cancer Registry) Years Percentage survival rates Male Female All patients 1 72-1 69-7 70-9 2 52-9 55 0 53-9 3 39-8 41-5 40-6 4 31-3 36-8 34 0 5 24-9 33-4 28-8 6 18-3 33-4 24-6 7 — 33-4 24-6 Patients Total initially at risk 136 140 276 Crude Survival Rates for Skin, Upper Limbs [172-7] {South Metropolitan Cancer Registry) Years Percentage survival rates Male Female All patients 1 90-8 86-9 87-9 2 58-2 77-1 72-2 3 48-1 66-7 61-8 4 28-2 55-7 48-4 5 23-1 52-2 44-5 6 16*5 49-8 41 0 7 — 49 8 41 0 Patients Total initially at risk 44 131 175 TABLE IX Crude Survival Rates for Skin, Lower Limbs [172-8] {South Metropolitan Cancer Registry) Years Percentage survival rates Male Female All patients 1 77-6 89-9 87-3 2 55-1 77-9 73-1 3 46-7 71-3 66-2 4 37-8 63-6 58-3 5 31-5 58-8 53-4 6 28-5 53-2 48-3 7 20-3 51-7 45-8 Patients Total initially at risk 122 458 580 TABLE X Crude Survival Rates for Skin, Face (Not elsewhere included) [172*3] {South Metropolitan Cancer Registry) Years Percentage survival rates Male Female All patients 1 900 860 87-2 2 60-7 78-5 72-9 3 51-9 64-9 60-9 4 31 *6 58 0 49-8 5 22-1 50-8 41 *9 6 18-7 46-8 37-9 7 — 44-3 36-2 Patients Total initially at risk 51 115 166 2 Radiation Taking the English figures alone, whatever the factor, it appears to have operated with maximum intensity over the decades 1940-50 and 1950-60 achieving a relatively stable situation by 1961. It is coincidental, to say the least, that this corresponds with the use and testing of atomic weapons with subsequent dispersal of radiation, culminating in the test ban treaty. Perhaps the study of incidence figures compared with long-term records of radiation fall out or the presence of strontium 90 in milk, both of which exist in some files, would be enlightening. Certainly in Australia, where the latitude correlation has been most conclusively studied, all the dirty explosions occurred to the north of the continent, towards or beyond the equator.
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