Mortality and cancer incidence of Australian participants in the British nuclear tests in Australia

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 65, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 843-848

  Gun, R T ^a   Parsons, J ^a   Crouch, P ^a   Ryan, P ^a   Hiller, J E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; COLON CANCER; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; IONIZING RADIATION; LEUKEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RECTUM CANCER;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUSTRALIA; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; NUCLEAR WEAPONS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY;

EID: 57149120352     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: 14707926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.2007.034652     Document Type: Article

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