Analysis of the incidence of solid cancer among atomic bomb survivors using a two-stage model of carcinogenesis

Radiation Research

Volumn 148, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 348-358

  Kai, Michiaki ^a   Luebeck, E Georg ^b   Moolgavkar, Suresh H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATOMIC BOMB SURVIVOR; CANCER INCIDENCE; COLON CANCER; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMAN; IONIZING RADIATION; JAPAN; LUNG CANCER; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION CARCINOGENESIS; RADIATION EXPOSURE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STOCHASTIC MODEL; STOMACH CANCER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; JAPAN; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; NUCLEAR WARFARE; RISK; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; SURVIVORS;

EID: 0030880946     PISSN: 00337587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3579520     Document Type: Article

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