Analysis of solid cancer mortality in the Techa River Cohort using the two-step clonal expansion model

Radiation Research

Volumn 169, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 138-148

  Eidemuller M ^a   Ostroumova, E ^b,c   Krestinina, L ^c   Akleyev, A ^c   Jacob, P ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c URALS RESEARCH CENTER FOR RADIATION MEDICINE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLUTONIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RIVER; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SOLID TUMOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; RIVERS; RUSSIA; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; WATER POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE;

EID: 39749155684     PISSN: 00337587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1667/RR1157.1     Document Type: Article

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