Epidemiology of lung and larynx cancers in coal mines in upper silesia - Preliminary results

Health Physics

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 365-370

  Skowronek, Jan ^a   Zemla, Brunon ^b  

^a CENTRAL MINING INSTITUTE   (Poland)

^b INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Cancer; Epidemiology; Mining, coal; Risk analysis

Indexed keywords

BISMUTH; BISMUTH 214; LEAD; LEAD 214; POLONIUM; POLONIUM 214; POLONIUM 218; RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL; RADIUM 226; RADIUM 228; RADON; RADON 222; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ALPHA RADIATION; ARTICLE; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER RISK; COAL MINING; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; LARYNX CANCER; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MINER; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POLAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION HAZARD; RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEDIMENT; WATER CONTAMINATION; WORKPLACE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; COAL MINING; HUMANS; LARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; POLAND; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY; RADON; RADON DAUGHTERS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0041660890     PISSN: 00179078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004032-200309000-00013     Document Type: Article

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