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Belle de Jour: On science and prostitution

By Rowan Hooper

2 December 2009

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“Belle de Jour”, author of The Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl, turns out to be based at the University of Bristol.

In one of your early papers you established a possible link between thyroid cancer in women in Cumbria and fallout from Chernobyl.

The trends in thyroid carcinomas in young women in north-west England show a consistent rise since the late 1980s. But our research also shows an increase in areas that didn’t receive fallout from Chernobyl, so there may be other causes at work.

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