Mortality of employess of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, 1946-97

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 61, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 577-585

  Atkinson, W D ^a,b   Law, D V ^a   Bromley, K J ^a   Inskip, H M ^c  

^a Health Physics Division   (United Kingdom)

^b Health Effects   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NUCLEAR INDUSTRY; PERSONNEL RADIATION MONITORING; PLEURA CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION; RADIATION DOSE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UNITED KINGDOM; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; UTERUS CANCER; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; NUCLEAR ENERGY; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PLEURA TUMOR; PROSTATE TUMOR; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; STATISTICS;

COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; NEOPLASMS; NUCLEAR ENERGY; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PLEURAL NEOPLASMS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; UTERINE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 3042747506     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.2003.012443     Document Type: Article

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