Studies of radon-exposed miner cohorts using a biologically based model: Comparison of current Czech and French data with historic data from China and Colorado

Radiation and Environmental Biophysics

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 247-256

  Heidenreich, W F ^a   Tomasek L ^b   Rogel, A ^c   Laurier, D ^c   Tirmarche, M ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL RADIATION PROTECTION INSTITUTE   (Czech Republic)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; CLONING; DATA ACQUISITION; HEALTH RISKS; RADIATION; RADON;

DATA SETS; HISTORIC DATA; LUNG CANCER; TWO-STAGE CLONAL EXPANSION (TSCE);

TUMORS;

RADON;

AGE; ARTICLE; BIRTH; CANCER RISK; CHINA; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CZECH REPUBLIC; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MALE; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; MINER; OBSERVATION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REPRODUCIBILITY; TIME; UNITED STATES;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ALGORITHMS; BODY BURDEN; CHINA; COHORT STUDIES; COLORADO; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CZECH REPUBLIC; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FRANCE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MINING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION MONITORING; RADON; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 12944292876     PISSN: 0301634X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00411-004-0266-3     Document Type: Article

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