Heterogeneity of cancer risk due to stochastic effects: Emphasis on radiation-induced effects

Radiation and Environmental Biophysics

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 33-37

  Heidenreich, Wolfgang F ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER RISK; CLONAL EXPANSION MODEL; HETEROGENEITY; INTERMEDIATE CELLS; LIVER CANCER; STOCHASTIC EFFECTS;

CELLS; DISEASES; GENES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ONCOLOGY; POPULATION STATISTICS; RISKS;

RADIATION EFFECTS;

THORIUM DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; CANCER; CANCER CELL; CANCER RISK; INJECTION; LIVER CANCER; POPULATION RISK; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION CARCINOGENESIS; RADIATION HAZARD; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RADIATION TOLERANCE; RISK; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 33746662276     PISSN: 0301634X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00411-006-0042-7     Document Type: Article

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