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COMARE Reports
The following reports
are available from the COMARE contact address:
COMARE Secretariat
c/o Health Protection Agency
Radiation Protection
Division
Chilton, Didcot, Oxon OX11 0RQ
Tel: 01235-822629
Fax: 01235-832447
comare@hpa.org.uk
- Committee on Medical Aspects of Radiation in the Environment (COMARE) (2007). Twelfth Report. The impact of personally initiated X-ray computed tomography scanning for the health assessment of asymptomatic individuals. Health Protection Agency, December 2007.
Twelfth Report - Press Release
 COMARE Twelfth Report (PDF, 83 pages, 550 KB)
- Committee on Medical Aspects of Radiation in the Environment
(COMARE) (2006). Eleventh Report.
The distribution of childhood leukaemia and other childhood
cancer in Great Britain 1969-1993. Health Protection
Agency, July 2006.
Eleventh Report - Press
Release
COMARE
Eleventh Report (PDF, 160 pages, 726 KB)
The additional Childhood Cancer Research Group (CCRG) tables mentioned in the COMARE 11th Report can be found here:
CCRG/COMARE11
- Committee on Medical Aspects of Radiation in the Environment
(COMARE) (2005). Tenth Report.
The incidence of childhood cancer around nuclear installations
in Great Britain. Health Protection Agency, June
2005.
Tenth Report - Press
Release
COMARE
Tenth Report (PDF, 46 pages, 364 KB)
- Committee on Medical Aspects of Radiation in the Environment
(COMARE) (2004). Ninth Report.
Advice to Government on the review of radiation risks from
radioactive internal emitters carried out and published by the
Committee Examining Radiation Risks of Internal Emitters (CERRIE).
National Radiological Protection Board, October 2004.
Ninth Report - Press
Release
COMARE
Ninth Report (PDF, 40 pages, 296 KB)
- Committee on Medical Aspects of Radiation in the Environment
(COMARE) (2004). Eighth Report. A review
of pregnancy outcomes following preconceptional exposure to
radiation. National Radiological Protection Board, February
2004.
Eighth Report - Press
Release
COMARE Eighth Report (PDF, 83 pages, 416 KB)
- Committee on Medical Aspects of Radiation in the Environment
(COMARE) (2002). Seventh Report. Parents
occupationally exposed to radiation prior to the conception
of their children: A review of the evidence concerning the incidence
of cancer in their children. National Radiological Protection
Board, August 2002.
Seventh Report - Press
Release
COMARE Seventh Report (PDF, 86 pages, 442 KB)
- Committee on Medical Aspects of Radiation in the Environment
(COMARE). Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee (RWMAC)
(1999). Report on: Radioactive Contamination at a Property
in Seascale, Cumbria. National Radiological Protection
Board, June 1999.
Joint Report
- Press
Release
- Committee on Medical Aspects of Radiation in the Environment
(COMARE) (1999). Sixth Report. A reconsideration
of the possible health implications of the radioactive particles
found in the general environment around the Dounreay Nuclear
Establishment in the light of the work undertaken since 1995
to locate their source. National Radiological Protection
Board, March 1999.
Sixth Report - Press
Release
- Committee on Medical Aspects of Radiation in the Environment
(COMARE) (1998). Fifth Report. The incidence
of cancer and leukaemia in the area around the former Greenham
Common Airbase. An investigation of a possible association with
measured environmental radiation levels. National Radiological
Protection Board, March 1998.
- Committee on Medical Aspects of Radiation in the Environment
(COMARE) (1996). Fourth Report. The incidence
of cancer and leukaemia in young people in the vicinity of the
Sellafield site, West Cumbria: Further studies and an update
of the situation since the publication of the report of the
Black Advisory Group in 1984. Department of Health, London
March 1996. ISBN: 1858395453
- Committee on Medical Aspects of Radiation in the Environment
(COMARE) Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee (RWMAC)
(1995). Report on: Potential health effects and possible
sources of radioactive particles found in the vicinity of the
Dounreay nuclear establishment. HMSO, London May 1995.
- Committee on Medical Aspects of Radiation in the Environment
(COMARE) (1989). Third Report. Report
on the Incidence of Childhood Cancer in the West Berkshire and
North Hampshire area, in which are situated the Atomic Weapons
Research Establishment, Aldermaston and the Royal Ordnance Factory,
Burghfield. HMSO, London June 1989.
- Committee on Medical Aspects of Radiation in the Environment
(COMARE) (1988). Second Report. Investigation
of the possible increased incidence of leukaemia in young people
near the Dounreay Nuclear Establishment, Caithness, Scotland.
HMSO, London June 1988.
- Committee on Medical Aspects of Radiation in the Environment
(COMARE) (1986). First Report. The implications
of the new data on the releases from Sellafield in the 1950s
for the conclusions of the Report on the Investigation of the
Possible Increased Incidence of Cancer in West Cumbria.
HMSO, London July 1986.
Summary
of the First Six COMARE Reports
COMARE
Reports 1-6 are not available in PDF. The PDF document
below summarises the conclusions and recommendations of these
six reports.
Summary of COMARE 1-6 Reports
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COMARE Statements
Apart from its now seven
full reports and its two joint reports with RWMAC, COMARE has
produced many other statements on a variety of different issues.
They were usually published in Hansard and the references are
given below.
COMARE Statements prior
to the publication of the Committee's Fourth Report
- COMARE Statement of advice on the Investigation of the incidence
of Cancer around Wylfa and Trawsfynydd nuclear installations.
Hansard 16 June 1994 Col 655-657
- COMARE Statement of advice on the Aldermaston and Burghfield
case-control study. Hansard 18 May 1993 Col 151-152
- COMARE Statement of advice on the Study of cancer in young
people living in the vicinity of Sellafield. Hansard, 14 January
1993 Col 803-804
- COMARE Statement of advice to Health Departments Health effects
of ultra violet radiation. Hansard 1 July 1992 Col 637-639
- COMARE Statement of advice on Parental occupations of children
with leukaemia in west Cumbria, north Humberside and Gateshead.
Hansard, 3 June 1991 Col 64-66
- COMARE Statement of advice on the Results of a case-control
study of leukaemia and non- Hodgkins lymphoma in children in
Caithness near the Dounreay nuclear installation. Hansard, 21
March 1991 Col 187-190
- COMARE Statement of advice on the Case-Control study of leukaemia
and lymphoma among young people near the Sellafield nuclear
plant in West Cumbria. Hansard, 2 April 1990 Col 430-434
- COMARE 1989; Statement from COMARE on the Limitation of Human
Exposure to Radon in the Home. Copies available from the Secretariat.
COMARE
Statements since the publication of the Committee's Fourth Report
Since the publication
of the Fourth Report, the Committee has produced several Statements.
They can be obtained from the Secretariat and are as follows:
30 March 2005
17 January 2005
2001
- COMARE Review of the Radioactive Waste Management Advisory
Committee (RWMAC)
11 September 1996
- Department of Health Research Programme
13 August 1996
- Cancer incidence near radio and TV transmitters in Great Britain
2 August 1996
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Other COMARE Documents
- Letter
on Controllable Dose - 14 July 2000 - the committee has
commented, by letter, on suggestions for revision of the International
Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) system of radiological
protection. These suggestions were published in 1999 by the
chairman of ICRP, Professor R H Clarke ("Control of Low-level
radiation exposure: time for a change?" R Clarke, Journal
of Radiological Protection, Vol 19, No 2, 1999). They went under
the general title of 'controllable dose'. The interest raised
led to an offer by Professor Clarke to present the ideas to
representatives of relevant UK Government advisory committees,
Government departments and other interested bodies at a special
seminar in February 2000. COMARE members attended and written
comments were provided to Professor Clarke.
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