Comments on "Adjusting lung cancer risks for temporal and spatial variations in radon concentrations in dwellings in Gansu Province, China" by Lubin et al. [1]

Radiation Research

Volumn 166, Issue 1 I, 2006, Pages 120-

  Tschiersch, Jochen ^a   Haninger, Thomas ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b Official Personnel Monitoring Service   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RADON;

CANCER RISK; CHINA; DOSIMETRY; LETTER; LUNG CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DETECTION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION PROTECTION;

ADULT; AGED; AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; ARTIFACTS; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HOUSING; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY; RADON; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33745889321     PISSN: 00337587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1667/RR3566.1     Document Type: Letter

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