Ionizing radiation and risk of laryngeal cancer among German uranium miners

Health Physics

Volumn 95, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 725-733

  Mohner M ^a   Lindtner, M ^a   Otten, H ^b  

^a FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (Germany)

^b INSTITUT FÜR ARBEITSSCHUTZ DER DEUTSCHEN GESETZLICHEN UNFALLVERSICHERUNG IFA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cancer; Epidemiology; Radiation risk; Radon progeny

Indexed keywords

RADON; URANIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CASE CONTROL STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GAMMA RADIATION; GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC; HUMAN; IONIZING RADIATION; LARYNX CANCER; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; OCCUPATIONAL CARCINOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOISOTOPE DECAY; SMOKING; URANIUM MINE; COHORT ANALYSIS; LARYNX TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; MINING; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COHORT STUDIES; GERMANY, EAST; HUMANS; LARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; MINING; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RADIATION, IONIZING; RADON; RISK ASSESSMENT; URANIUM;

EID: 58149154979     PISSN: 00179078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.HP.0000319906.41329.04     Document Type: Article

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