Cancer mortality among atomic bomb survivors exposed in utero or as young children, October 1950-May 1992

Radiation Research

Volumn 147, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 385-397

  Delongchamp, Robert R ^a   Mabuchi, Kiyohiko ^a   Yoshimoto, Yasuhiko ^a   Preston, Dale L ^a  

^a RADIATION EFFECTS RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATOMIC BOMB; BREAST CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; DOSE RESPONSE; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC CANCER; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE;

ADULT; CHILD; FEMALE; FETUS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GAMMA RAYS; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; NEUTRONS; NUCLEAR WARFARE; PREGNANCY;

EID: 0031043116     PISSN: 00337587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3579348     Document Type: Article

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