Investigating time patterns of variation in radiation cancer associations

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 62, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 551-558

  Richardson, D B ^a   Ashmore, J P ^b  

^a IL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IONIZING RADIATION; LEUKEMIA; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR INDUSTRY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION CARCINOGENESIS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CANADA; COHORT ANALYSIS; LUNG TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; ONSET AGE; RADIATION INJURY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; AGED; CANADA; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 23044453230     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.2004.017368     Document Type: Article

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