Breast cancer mortality between 1950 and 1987 after exposure to fractionated moderate-dose-rate ionizing radiation in the canadian fluoroscopy cohort study and a comparison with breast cancer mortality in the atomic bomb survivors study

Radiation Research

Volumn 145, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 694-707

  Howe, Geoffrey R ^a   McLaughlin, John ^b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANADA; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; FEMALE; HUMAN; IONIZING RADIATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION CARCINOGENESIS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION HAZARD;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CANADA; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; NOVA SCOTIA; NUCLEAR WARFARE; RADIATION, IONIZING; RISK ASSESSMENT; TIME FACTORS;

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EID: 0029997063     PISSN: 00337587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3579360     Document Type: Article

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