Radon exposure, cigarette smoking, and other mining experience in the beaverlodge uranium miners cohort

Health Physics

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 1991, Pages 489-495

  L’Abbé, Kristan A ^a   Howe, Geoffrey R ^a   David Burch, J ^a   Miller, Anthony B ^a   Abbatt, John ^b   Band, Pierre ^c   Choi, Won ^d   Du, Jeannine ^d   Feather, Joan ^e   Gallagher, Richard ^c   Hill, Gerry ^f   Matthews, Vincent ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b Formerly of Eldorado Resources Limited ^*  (Canada)

^c BRITISH COLUMBIA CANCER AGENCY   (Canada)

^d Manitoba Cancer Treatment and Research Foundation   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^f Alberta Cancer Board   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RADON 222;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; URANIUM MINE;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COHORT STUDIES; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MINING; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RADON; RISK; SASKATCHEWAN; SMOKING; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; URANIUM;

EID: 0025971997     PISSN: 00179078     EISSN: 15385159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004032-199104000-00002     Document Type: Article

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