Health benefits of solar UV-B radiation: Cancer risk reduction

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4482, Issue , 2002, Pages 324-334

  Grant, William B ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASES; ECOLOGY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ONCOLOGY; OZONE; RADIATION EFFECTS; SOLAR RADIATION; SPECTROMETERS; VITAMINS;

BREAST CANCER; CANCER RISK REDUCTION; COLON CANCER; NON HODGSKIN LYMPHOMA; OVARIAN CANCER; PROSTATE CANCER; SOLAR ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; TOTAL OZONE MAPPING SPECTROMETER; VITAMIN D;

ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

EID: 0036395023     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.452935     Document Type: Conference Paper

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