A new calculation of the carcinogenic risk of obstetric X‐raying

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 1988, Pages 857-864

  Bithell, J F ^a   Stiller, C A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cancer risk; Excess relative risk; Joint likelihood; Obstetric X raying

Indexed keywords

CANCER STATISTICS; CHILDHOOD CANCER; FEMALE; FETUS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; METHODOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOGRAPHY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SHORT SURVEY;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, THIRD; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RISK FACTORS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0023732772     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.4780070804     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. Malignant disease in childhood and diagnostic irradiation in utero
2. Prenatal irradiation and childhood malignancy: a review of British data from the Oxford Survey
3. Do childhood cancers result from prenatal X‐rays?
4. Prenatal X‐ray exposure and childhood cancer
5. Prenatal X‐ray exposure and childhood cancer in twins
6. Radiation dose effects in relation to obstetric X‐rays and childhood cancers
7. Modelling the relative and absolute risks of radiation‐induced cancers