The influence of radiation and nonradiation factors on the lung cancer incidence among the workers of the nuclear enterprise ma yak

Health Physics

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 1995, Pages 356-366

  Drozhko, E G ^a   Tokarskaya, Z B ^b   Okladnikova, N D ^b   Belyaeva, Z D ^b  

^a University of Ministry of Health   (Russian Federation)

^b NONE

Author keywords

2 1 9Pu; Cancer; Cigarettes; Human; Lungs

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; CIGARETTE SMOKING; DOSE RESPONSE; FEMALE; GAMMA RADIATION; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR REACTOR; OCCUPATIONAL CANCER; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE;

AGED; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; POWER PLANTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING;

EID: 0029098273     PISSN: 00179078     EISSN: 15385159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004032-199509000-00007     Document Type: Article

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