Variations with time and age in the risks of solid cancer incidence after radiation exposure in childhood

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1341-1355

  Little, M P ^a   De Vathaire, F ^b   Charles, M W ^c   Hawkins, M M ^c   Muirhead, C R ^a  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUT GUSTAVE ROUSSY   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; ATOMIC BOMB SURVIVOR; BENIGN TUMOR; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; CANCER STATISTICS; CHILDHOOD CANCER; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SKIN CANCER; SOLID TUMOR; THYMUS DISEASE; THYROID CANCER; THYROID TUMOR; TINEA CAPITIS;

AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRANCE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT, NEWBORN; ISRAEL; JAPAN; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; NEW YORK; NUCLEAR WARFARE; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY; RISK FACTORS; THYMUS HYPERPLASIA; TIME FACTORS; TINEA CAPITIS;

EID: 0032581044     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19980630)17:12<1341::AID-SIM852>3.0.CO;2-6     Document Type: Article

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