Cancer and noncancer mortality in populations living near uranium and vanadium mining and milling operations in Montrose County, Colorado, 1950-2000

Radiation Research

Volumn 167, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 711-726

  Boice Jr , John D ^a,b   Mumma, Michael T ^a   Blot, William J ^a,b  

^a INTERNATIONAL EPIDEMIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT INGRAM CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

URANIUM; VANADIUM;

ARTICLE; BONE CANCER; BREAST CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILDHOOD CANCER; FEMALE; HUMAN; KIDNEY CANCER; KIDNEY DISEASE; LEUKEMIA; LIVER CANCER; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINING; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; UNITED STATES; ADULT; AGED; BODY BURDEN; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GEOGRAPHY; INCIDENCE; METALLURGY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; RADIATION INJURY; RADIATION MONITORING; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY BURDEN; COLORADO; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; METALLURGY; MIDDLE AGED; MINING; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; RADIATION MONITORING; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; URANIUM; VANADIUM;

EID: 34447536725     PISSN: 00337587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1667/RR0839.1     Document Type: Article

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