Risk of chronic myeloid and acute leukemia mortality after exposure to ionizing radiation among workers at four U.S. nuclear weapons facilities and a nuclear Naval Shipyard

Radiation Research

Volumn 167, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 222-232

  Schubauer Berigan, Mary K ^a   Daniels, Robert D ^a   Fleming, Donald A ^a   Markey, Andrea M ^a   Couch, James R ^b   Ahrenholz, Steven H ^a   Burphy, Jenneh S ^a,c   Anderson, Jeri L ^a   Tseng, Chih Yu ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

^b WESTAT   (United States)

^c Martin County Health Department   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZENE;

ACUTE LEUKEMIA; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATOMIC BOMB; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IONIZING RADIATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAVY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION CARCINOGENESIS; RADIATION EXPOSURE;

AGED; BENZENE; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, MYELOCYTIC, ACUTE; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID, CHRONIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; NUCLEAR REACTORS; NUCLEAR WARFARE; RADIATION, IONIZING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK;

EID: 33846781656     PISSN: 00337587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1667/RR0724.1     Document Type: Article

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