Cancer mortality among populations residing in counties near the Hanford site, 1950-2000

Health Physics

Volumn 90, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 431-445

  Boice Jr , John D ^a,b   Mumma, Michael T ^a   Blot, William J ^a,b  

^a INTERNATIONAL EPIDEMIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT INGRAM CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Exposure; Hanford accident; Mortality; Population

Indexed keywords

IODINE 131; RADIOACTIVE IODINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CHILDHOOD LEUKEMIA; CHRONIC LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA; LUNG CANCER; MALE; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; NUCLEAR INDUSTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THYROID CANCER; ATOMIC WARFARE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; INCIDENCE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION INJURY; RADIATION MONITORING; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; NUCLEAR WARFARE; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION MONITORING; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; WASHINGTON;

EID: 33646372972     PISSN: 00179078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.HP.0000183762.47244.bb     Document Type: Article

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