Biologically based prediction of empirical nonlinearity in lung cancer risk vs. residential/occupational radon exposure

Human and Ecological Risk Assessment (HERA)

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 811-827

  Bogen, Kenneth T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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