Selection bias in cancer risk estimation from A-bomb survivors

Radiation Research

Volumn 167, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 735-741

  Pierce, Donald A ^a   Vaeth, Michael ^b   Shimizu, Yukiko ^a  

^a RADIATION EFFECTS RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (Japan)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATOMIC BOMB; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER RISK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION CARCINOGENESIS; SURVIVOR; ATOMIC WARFARE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; LUNG TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RADIATION INJURY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; LUNG NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; NUCLEAR WARFARE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVORS;

EID: 34447526664     PISSN: 00337587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1667/RR0349.1     Document Type: Article

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