Risk of lung cancer mortality after exposure to radon decay products in the Beaverlodge cohort based on revised exposure estimates

Radiation Research

Volumn 146, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 37-42

  Howe, Geoffrey R ^a   Stager, Ron H ^b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b SENES Consultants Limited   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RADON;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANADA; CANCER MORTALITY; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMPLOYMENT; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOISOTOPE DECAY; URANIUM MINE;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MINING; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; RADON;

EID: 0029957003     PISSN: 00337587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3579393     Document Type: Article

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