Incidence of cancer among Swedish military and civil personnel involved in UN missions in the Balkans 1989-99

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 171-173

  Gustavsson, P ^a,f   Talback M ^b   Lundin, A ^a   Lagercrantz, B ^c   Gyllestad, P E ^d   Fornell, L ^e  

^a Stockholm Centre of Public Health   (Sweden)

^b CENTRE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c Swedish Armed Forces   (Sweden)

^d Swedish Armed Forces   (Sweden)

^e Swedish Rescue Services Agency   (Sweden)

^f KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

URANIUM;

ACUTE LEUKEMIA; ADULT; ARMY; ARTICLE; BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA; CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; LEUKEMIA; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SOLDIER; TESTIS CANCER;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MILITARY PERSONNEL; NEOPLASMS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; SWEDEN; UNITED NATIONS; WAR; YUGOSLAVIA;

EID: 0942290491     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.2002.005538     Document Type: Article

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