Carcinoma of the stomach following the Chernobyl nuclear accident

European Journal of Cancer Part A

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1413-1418

  Shchepotin, I B ^a,b   Valetsky, V L ^b   Chorny, V A ^b   Shabahang, M ^a   Nauta, R J ^a   Buras, R R ^a   Evans, S R T ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b R E KAVETSKY INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL PATHOLOGY   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

Chernobyl; Gastric cancer; Nuclear accident; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION; STOMACH CARCINOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACCIDENTS, RADIATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HUMANS; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; NEUTROPHILS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; UKRAINE;

EID: 0030850680     PISSN: 09598049     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-8049(97)00128-7     Document Type: Article

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