Comparison of Health and Safety Executive and Cumbrian birth cohort studies of risk of leukaemia/non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in relation to paternal preconceptional irradiation

Journal of Radiological Protection

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 385-403

  Dickinson, H O ^a   Hodgson, John T ^b   Parker, Louise ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b HEALTH AND SAFETY EXECUTIVE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; HEALTH CARE; IRRADIATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

LEUKAEMIA;

RADIATION PROTECTION;

CANCER RISK; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL WORKER; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; IRRADIATION; LEUKEMIA; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION RESPONSE; REVIEW; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TYPES OF STUDY; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA; LYMPHOMA, NON-HODGKIN; MALE; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; NUCLEAR REACTORS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PATERNAL EXPOSURE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0742306464     PISSN: 09524746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0952-4746/23/4/003     Document Type: Review

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