Childhood thyroid cancer, radiation dose from chernobyl, and dose uncertainties in Bryansk Oblast, Russia: A population-based case-control study

Radiation Research

Volumn 166, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 367-374

  Kopecky, Kenneth J ^a   Stepanenko, Valery ^b   Rivkind, Nikolai ^c   Voillequé, Paul ^d   Onstad, Lynn ^a   Shakhtarin, Vladimir ^b   Parshkov, Evgeni ^b   Kulikov, Sergei ^e   Lushnikov, Evgeni ^b   Abrosimov, Alexander ^b   Troshin, Vladislav ^f   Romanova, Galina ^c   Doroschenko, Vladimir ^c   Proshin, Anatoli ^c   Tsyb, Anatoly ^b   Davis, Scott ^a,g  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^b MEDICAL RADIOLOGICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (Russian Federation)

^c Bryansk Diagnostic Center   (Russian Federation)

^d MJP Risk Assessment Inc   (United States)

^e NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTER FOR HEMATOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^f BRYANSK STATE TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IODINE 131; RADIOACTIVE IODINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; POPULATION BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION CARCINOGENESIS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RISK FACTOR; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; THYROID CANCER; UNCERTAINTY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; RADIATION DOSAGE; RISK FACTORS; RUSSIA; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33746604813     PISSN: 00337587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1667/RR3596.1     Document Type: Article

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