Is the radon risk overestimated? Neglected doses in the estimation of the risk of lung cancer in uranium underground miners

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 329-338

  Duport, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RADON 222; URANIUM;

ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INHALATION; LUNG CANCER; MINER; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION HAZARD; RADIOISOTOPE DECAY; URANIUM MINE;

EID: 0036245571     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.rpd.a006724     Document Type: Article

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