Thyroid cancer incidence in the Ukraine after the Chernobyl accident: Comparison with spontaneous incidences

Radiation and Environmental Biophysics

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 195-199

  Sobolev, B ^a   Heidenreich, W F ^b   Kairo, I ^a   Jacob, P ^b   Goulko, G ^b   Likhtarev, I ^a  

^a Res Center of Radiation Medicine   (Ukraine)

^b INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; CHILD; DOSE RESPONSE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RISK ASSESSMENT; THYROID CANCER; UKRAINE;

ACCIDENTS, RADIATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MALE; POWER PLANTS; THYROID NEOPLASMS; UKRAINE;

EID: 0030864286     PISSN: 0301634X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004110050071     Document Type: Article

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