Thyroid cancers in France and the Chernobyl accident: Risk assessment and recommendations for improving epidemiological knowledge

Health Physics

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 323-329

  Verger, P ^a   Catelinois, O ^b   Tirmarche, M ^b   Cherie Challine L ^c   Pirard, Ph ^c   Colonna, M ^d   Hubert, Ph ^b  

^a OBSERVATOIRE RÉGIONAL DE LA SANTÉ PROVENCE ALPES CÔTE D AZUR   (France)

^b Institute for Radiological Protection and Nuclear Safety   (France)

^c French Institute for Public Health Surveillance   (France)

^d 21 chemin des sources ^*  (France)

Author keywords

131I; Cancer; Chernobyl; Thyroid

Indexed keywords

IODINE 131;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER RISK; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; CHILD; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSE RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FALLOUT; FRANCE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NEWBORN; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION HAZARD; RADIATION RESPONSE; RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; TECHNIQUE; THYROID CANCER;

ACCIDENTS, RADIATION; ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; FRANCE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; POWER PLANTS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOACTIVE FALLOUT; RADIOMETRY; RISK ASSESSMENT; THYROID NEOPLASMS; UKRAINE;

EID: 0041660897     PISSN: 00179078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004032-200309000-00008     Document Type: Article

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