Cancers among Residents Downwind of the Hanford, Washington, Plutonium Production Site

Archives of Environmental Health

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 267-274

  Grossman, Charles M ^a   Nussbaum, Rudi H ^b,d   Nussbaum, Fred D ^c  

^a LEGACY GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c F Nussbaum Computer Consulting   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

129I; 131I; Brain tumors; Community based research; Downwinders; Environmental radioactivity; Female reproductive cancers; Hanford, Washington; Popular epidemiology; Thyroid cancers

Indexed keywords

IODINE 129; PLUTONIUM;

AIR POLLUTION; BRAIN CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM TUMOR; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NUCLEAR INDUSTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION; REVIEW; SOIL POLLUTION; THYROID DISEASE; UNITED STATES; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGRICULTURE; AIR MOVEMENTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PESTICIDES; PLUTONIUM; POWER PLANTS; RADIOACTIVE POLLUTANTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; WASHINGTON;

EID: 0347989566     PISSN: 00039896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3200/AEOH.58.5.267-274     Document Type: Review

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