Radiation epidemiology: The 'past is prologue' to the twenty-first century

Nuclear Energy

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 15-20

  Boice Jr , J D ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL EPIDEMIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Epidemiology; Ionizing radiation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0008115602     PISSN: 01404067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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