The Ukrainian-American study of leukemia and related disorders among chornobyl cleanup workers from Ukraine: I. Study methods

Radiation Research

Volumn 170, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 691-697

  Romanenko, A ^a   Bebeshko, V ^a   Hatch, M ^b   Bazyka, D ^a   Finch, S ^c   Dyagil, I ^a   Reiss, R ^e   Chumak, V ^a   Bouville, A ^b   Gudzenko, N ^a   Zablotsk, L ^d   Pilinskay, M ^a   Lyubarets, T ^a   Bakhanova, E ^a   Babkina, N ^a   Trotsiuk, N ^a   Ledoschuk, B ^a   Belayev, Y ^a   Dybsky, S S ^a   Ron, E ^b   Howe, G ^d   more..

^a Research Center for Radiation Medicine   (Ukraine)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c RUTGERS ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^e US National Cancer Institute ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; CHRONIC LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL WORKER; INTERVIEW; LEUKEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION HAZARD; UKRAINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; CITIES; COHORT STUDIES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION; EPIDEMIOLOGIC RESEARCH DESIGN; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROMES; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RISK FACTORS; UKRAINE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 57149114755     PISSN: 00337587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1667/RR1402.1     Document Type: Article

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