Monte Carlo mixture model of lifetime cancer incidence risk from radiation exposure on shuttle and international space station

Mutation Research - Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis

Volumn 430, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 327-335

  Peterson, Leif E ^a   Cucinotta, Francis A ^b  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

International Space Station; Lifetime risk; Malignant neoplasms; Monte Carlo uncertainty analysis; Space radiation; Space Shuttle

Indexed keywords

CANCER RISK; CONFERENCE PAPER; HUMAN; LIFESPAN; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPACE FLIGHT; STATISTICAL MODEL;

NASA CENTER LARC; NASA DISCIPLINE RADIATION HEALTH; NASA PROGRAM BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH AND COUNTERMEASURES;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ALPHA PARTICLES; ASTRONAUTS; CATIONS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GAMMA RAYS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; IRON; JAPAN; LEUKEMIA, RADIATION-INDUCED; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; NUCLEAR WARFARE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; RISK; SEX FACTORS; SPACE FLIGHT; SURVIVORS;

EID: 0033401451     PISSN: 00275107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0027-5107(99)00145-1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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