Risk of breast cancer among female airline cabin attendants

BMJ

Volumn 318, Issue 7176, 1999, Pages 125-

  Badrinath, P ^a   Ramaiah, Sam ^a   Auvinen, Anssi ^b   Pukkala, Eero ^c   Blettner, Maria ^d   Wartenberg, Daniel ^e   Stapleton, Cecile Pryor ^e  

^a Walsall Heath Authority   (United States)

^b STUK RADIATION AND NUCLEAR SAFETY AUTHORITY   (Finland)

^c FINNISH CANCER REGISTRY   (Finland)

^d INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER   (France)

^e RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; BREAST TUMOR; COSMIC RADIATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; NOTE; RECALL; RISK FACTOR;

AIRCRAFT; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BREAST NEOPLASMS; COSMIC RADIATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MENTAL RECALL; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0033537221     PISSN: 09598138     EISSN: 14685833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.318.7176.125a     Document Type: Letter

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