Chernobyl-related thyroid cancer in children of belarus: A case-control study

Radiation Research

Volumn 150, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 349-356

  Astakhova, Larisa N ^a   Anspaugh, Lynn R ^b   Beebe, Gilbert W ^c   Bouville, André ^c   Drozdovitch, Vladimir V ^a   Garber, Vera ^c   Gavrilin, Yuri I ^d   Khrouch, Valeri T ^d   Kuvshinnikov, Arthur V ^a   Kuzmenkov, Yuri N ^a   Minenko, Victor P ^a   Moschik, Konstantin V ^a   Nalivko, Alexander S ^a   Robbins, Jacob ^e   Shemiakina, Elena V ^d   Shinkarev, Sergei ^d   Tochitskaya, Svetlana I ^a   Waclawiw, Myron A ^f  

^a Ministry of Health Republic of Belarus   (Belarus)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

^f NATIONAL HEART LUNG AND BLOOD INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BELARUS; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; THYROID CANCER;

EID: 0031681252     PISSN: 00337587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3579983     Document Type: Article

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