A biologically based model for liver cancer risk in the Swedish Thorotrast patients

Radiation Research

Volumn 159, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 656-662

  Heidenreich, W F ^a   Nyberg, Ullakarin ^b   Hall, P ^b  

^a BUNDESAMT FÜR STRAHLENSCHUTZ   (Germany)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THORIUM DIOXIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER RISK; CARCINOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERMEDIATE CELL; KINETICS; LIVER CANCER; LIVER CELL; LUNG TUMOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUTATION RATE; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SPONTANEOUS MUTATION; SWEDEN; TWO STEP CLONAL EXPANSION MODEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; SWEDEN; THORIUM DIOXIDE;

EID: 0038640332     PISSN: 00337587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1667/0033-7587(2003)159[0656:ABBMFL]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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