A retrospective mortality study of workers exposed to radon in a Brazilian underground coal mine

Radiation and Environmental Biophysics

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 125-134

  Veiga, Lene H S ^a   Amaral, Eliana C S ^a,d   Colin, Didier ^b   Koifman, Sérgio ^c  

^a INSTITUTO DE RADIOPROTEÇÃO E DOSIMETRIA   (Brazil)

^b INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER   (France)

^c INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^d INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LUNG CANCER MORTALITY; RETROSPECTIVE MORTALITY; STANDARD MORTALITY RATIO (SMR);

COAL MINES; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); RADON; REGIONAL PLANNING; STATISTICAL METHODS; TUMORS;

RADIATION HAZARDS;

RADON;

ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CANCER; COAL MINING; DEATH; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EXHAUST GAS; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PNEUMONIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; STANDARD; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; WORKER;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; BRAZIL; COAL MINING; COHORT STUDIES; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PNEUMONIA; RADIATION INJURIES; RADON; RADON DAUGHTERS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 33745865516     PISSN: 0301634X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00411-006-0046-3     Document Type: Article

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