Response to "residential radon exposure and lung cancer risk: Commentary on Cohen's county-based study"

Health Physics

Volumn 87, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 656-658

  Cohen, Bernard L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Epidemiology; Lungs, human; Radon

Indexed keywords

RADON;

CANCER RISK; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; LUNG CANCER; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; SHORT SURVEY; SMOKING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 14844283109     PISSN: 00179078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.HP.0000138589.94705.fc     Document Type: Short Survey

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