Mortality of workers at a nuclear materials production plant at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, 1947-1990

American Journal of Industrial Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 131-141

  Loomis, Dana P ^a,b   Wolf, Susanne H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

beryllium Oak Ridge; cancer; epidemiology; ionizing radiation; nuclear workers; occupational health

Indexed keywords

BERYLLIUM; MERCURY; SOLVENT;

ALPHA RADIATION; ARTICLE; ATOMIC BOMB; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG CANCER; LYMPHOPROLIFERATIVE DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION HAZARD; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, RADIATION-INDUCED; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; NUCLEAR WARFARE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION INJURIES; RISK FACTORS; TENNESSEE;

EID: 0030020452     PISSN: 02713586     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0274(199602)29:2<131::AID-AJIM3>3.0.CO;2-V     Document Type: Article

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