Cancer risk estimates from the combined Japanese A-bomb and Hodgkin cohorts for doses relevant to radiotherapy

Radiation and Environmental Biophysics

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 253-263

  Schneider, Uwe ^a   Walsh, Linda ^b  

^a TRIEMLI HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOSE RESPONSE CURVES; PLATEAU MODELS;

DOSIMETRY; GAMMA RAYS; HEALTH RISKS; ONCOLOGY; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOTHERAPY;

TUMORS;

ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL KILLING; DISASTER; DOSE RESPONSE; GAMMA RADIATION; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; NEUTRON; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RELATIVE BIOLOGIC EFFECTIVENESS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR;

BODY BURDEN; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; NUCLEAR WARFARE; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 42149170486     PISSN: 0301634X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00411-007-0151-y     Document Type: Article

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