Follow up of mortality and incidence of cancer 1952-98 in men from the UK who participated in the UK's atmospheric nuclear weapon tests and experimental programmes

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 165-172

  Muirhead, C R ^a   Bingham, D ^a   Haylock, R G E ^a   O'Hagan, J A ^a   Goodill, A A ^a   Berridge, G L C ^a   English, M A ^a   Hunter, N ^a   Kendall, G M ^a  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; ATOMIC BOMB; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CHRONIC LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LIVER CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LEUKEMIA, RADIATION-INDUCED; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; NUCLEAR WARFARE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOACTIVE FALLOUT; RISK;

EID: 0037373576     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.60.3.165     Document Type: Article

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