Biologically based analysis of lung cancer incidence in a large Canadian occupational cohort with low-dose ionizing radiation exposure, and comparison with Japanese atomic bomb survivors

Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health - Part A: Current Issues

Volumn 69, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1013-1038

  Hazelton, William ^a   Moolgavkar, Suresh ^a   Curtis, Stanley ^a   Zielinski, Jan ^b,c   Patrick Ashmore, J ^d   Krewski, Daniel ^c  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^b Environmental Health Center   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^d HEALTH CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRITIUM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATOMIC BOMB; CANADA; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; CARCINOGENESIS; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; FEMALE; GAMMA RADIATION; HUMAN; IONIZING RADIATION; JAPAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SCHOOL CHILD; SMOKING;

CANADA; COHORT STUDIES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; NUCLEAR WARFARE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RADIATION, IONIZING; REGISTRIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX FACTORS; SURVIVORS;

EID: 33745700690     PISSN: 15287394     EISSN: 10872620     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00397910500360202     Document Type: Article

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