Cancer risk around the nuclear power plants of Trillo and Zorita (Spain)

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 60, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 521-527

  Silva Mato, A ^a   Viana, D ^a   Fernandez SanMartin M I ^a   Cobos, J ^b   Viana, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE GUADALAJARA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CANCER RISK; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION CARCINOGENESIS; SPAIN;

ADULT; AGED; AIR POLLUTION, RADIOACTIVE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; ODDS RATIO; POWER PLANTS; RADIOACTIVE POLLUTANTS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPAIN;

EID: 0038095681     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.60.7.521     Document Type: Article

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