Describing time and age variations in the risk of radiation-induced solid tumour incidence in the Japanese atomic bomb survivors using generalized relative and absolute risk models

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 17-33

  Little, M P ^a   Muirhead, C R ^a   Charles, M W ^b  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATOMIC BOMB SURVIVOR; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RISK; HUMAN; JAPAN; MODEL; ONSET AGE; RESPIRATORY TRACT CANCER; SOLID TUMOR; THYROID CANCER; TIME;

AGE FACTORS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COHORT STUDIES; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; RISK FACTORS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; THYROID NEOPLASMS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0033555480     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19990115)18:1<17::AID-SIM991>3.0.CO;2-7     Document Type: Article

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