[No increase in cancer incidence due to high-voltage cables in Odijk].
OBJECTIVE
To determine the incidence of cancer in Odijk and the connection if any of the occurrence of cancer with the presence of a high-voltage cable constructed there in the fifties.


METHODS
Descriptive.


METHODS
Public Health Services, South-East Utrecht, the Netherlands.


METHODS
Data on the numbers of new cancer patients in Odijk over the period 1985/'96 were obtained from general practitioners, from the Integral Cancer Centre Mid-Netherlands (IKMN) and from the Foundation Dutch Study Group Leukaemia in Children. The classifications were according to age and to distance from the home to the high-voltage cable. The electric and magnetic field strengths in dwellings situated less than 28 m from the cable were calculated.


RESULTS
Cancer was diagnosed in 131 patients in the period 1985/'96, 127 adults and four children. The cases in 3 of 4 children occurred in the period 1993/'96. Over the period 1990-1994, the registered cancer incidence did not deviate from the expected incidence in the IKMN region, nor from the mean incidence in the Netherlands. Neither for adults nor for children was a relationship found between cancer and living in the vicinity of the high-voltage cable. The exposure to the electric field of persons living in houses near the cable was maximally 7%, and exposure to the magnetic field maximally 6.5% of the maximal liminal values applied in the Netherlands on recommendation of the Health Council.


CONCLUSIONS
No relationship existed between development of cancer and the presence of a high-voltage cable.
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D017677:Age Distribution; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004307:Dose-Response Relationship, Radiation; D004574:Electromagnetic Fields / Q000009:adverse effects*; D004781:Environmental Exposure / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000032:analysis; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000145:classification / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology; D009426:Netherlands / Q000453:epidemiology; D011840:Radiation, Nonionizing / Q000009:adverse effects*; D012042:Registries; D017678:Sex Distribution
Geen hogere kankerincidentie door hoogspanningslijn in Odijk.