Evaluation of skin cancer risk for lunar and Mars missions

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1798-1803

  Kim, Myung Hee Y ^a,b   George, Kerry A ^a,b   Cucinotta, Francis A ^a  

^a NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^b WYLE LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer risk; Individual radiation sensitivity; Space exploration; Space radiation

Indexed keywords

IONIZING RADIATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; SKIN; TUMORS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

CANCER RISK; INDIVIDUAL RADIATION SENSITIVITY; SPACE EXPLORATION; SPACE RADIATION;

MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS;

EID: 33744811160     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2006.03.032     Document Type: Article

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