Comparison of breast cancer incidence in the Massachusetts tuberculosis fluoroscopy cohort and in the Japanese atomic bomb survivors

Radiation Research

Volumn 151, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 218-224

  Little, M P ^a   Boice Jr , J D ^b  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b INTERNATIONAL EPIDEMIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; ATOMIC BOMB SURVIVOR; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION CARCINOGENESIS; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; TUBERCULOSIS; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; JAPAN; MASSACHUSETTS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; NUCLEAR WARFARE; RISK FACTORS; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0032939830     PISSN: 00337587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3579773     Document Type: Article

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