Cancer risk from exposure to galactic cosmic rays: implications for space exploration by human beings

Lancet Oncology

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 431-435

  Cucinotta, Francis A ^a   Durante, Marco ^b  

^a NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATM PROTEIN; DNA DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; HISTONE H2AX; PROTEIN P53; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; BLADDER CANCER; BONE MARROW CANCER; BREAST CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER RISK; CARCINOGENICITY; COLON CANCER; COSMIC RADIATION; COSMONAUT; DNA DAMAGE; HEAVY ION RADIATION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER; LUNG CANCER; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; NONHUMAN; OVARY CANCER; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIATION CARCINOGENESIS; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION HAZARD; RADIATION SHIELD; RADIOSENSITIVITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPACE; STOMACH CANCER;

EID: 33645991783     PISSN: 14702045     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1470-2045(06)70695-7     Document Type: Note

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