Radon-associated lung cancer risk among French uranium miners: Modifying factors of the exposure-risk relationship

Radiation and Environmental Biophysics

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-9

  Vacquier, Blandine ^a   Rogel, Agnès ^a   Leuraud, Klervi ^a   Caer, Sylvaine ^b   Acker, Alain ^b   Laurier, Dominique ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE RADIOPROTECTION ET DE SÛRETÉ NUCLÉAIRE IRSN   (France)

^b AREVA NP   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE AT EXPOSURES; DEPENDENT FACTORS; EXCESS RELATIVE RISKS; EXPOSURE RATES; LUNG CANCERS; MINE LOCATIONS; MODIFYING FACTORS; PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES;

ACTINIDES; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; MINERS; MODELS; RADON; RISK ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; TRANSURANIUM ELEMENTS; URANIUM;

RISK PERCEPTION;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; COHORT STUDIES; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRANCE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINING; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RADON; RISK; TIME FACTORS; URANIUM;

EID: 58149350231     PISSN: 0301634X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00411-008-0196-6     Document Type: Article

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