Mortality of workers exposed to ionizing radiation at the French National Electricity Company

American Journal of Industrial Medicine

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 72-82

  Rogel, Agnès ^a,b   Carré, Nicolas ^a   Amoros, Emmanuèle ^c   Bonnet Belfais, Monique ^a   Goldberg, Marcel ^a,d   Imbernon, Ellen ^a,e   Calvez, Thierry ^a   Hill, Catherine ^f  

^a School of Medicine   (Spain)

^b INSTITUT DE RADIOPROTECTION ET DE SÛRETÉ NUCLÉAIRE IRSN   (France)

^c Inst Natl Rech Sur L   (France)

^d INSERM   (France)

^e INSTITUT DE VEILLE SANITAIRE   (France)

^f INSTITUT GUSTAVE ROUSSY   (France)

Author keywords

Cancer mortality; Cohort study; Ionizing radiation; Nuclear workers; Occupational health

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOSTATISTICS; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRANCE; HUMAN; IONIZING RADIATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; POPULATION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; WORKER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CAUSE OF DEATH; ELECTRICITY; FEMALE; FRANCE; HEALTHY WORKER EFFECT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; POWER PLANTS; RADIATION, IONIZING;

EID: 11944252127     PISSN: 02713586     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajim.20113     Document Type: Article

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