Effect of recent changes in atomic bomb survivor dosimetry on cancer mortality risk estimates

Radiation Research

Volumn 162, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 377-389

  Preston, Dale L ^a   Pierce, Donald A ^a   Shimizu, Yukiko ^a   Cullings, Harry M ^a   Fujita, Shoichiro ^a   Funamoto, Sachiyo ^a   Kodama, Kazunori ^a  

^a RADIATION EFFECTS RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; ATOMIC BOMB SURVIVOR; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CHILD; CURVE FITTING; DOSE RESPONSE; DOSIMETRY; DOSIMETRY SYSTEM; DS02 SYSTEM; DS86 SYSTEM; FACTORY WORKER; FEMALE; GAMMA RADIATION; HIROSHIMA; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL WORKER; INFANT; JAPAN; LEUKEMIA; LOW ENERGY RADIATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAGASAKI; NEUTRON RADIATION; NEWBORN; NON PROFIT ORGANIZATION; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION CARCINOGENESIS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EFFECTS RESEARCH FOUNDATION; RADIATION RESPONSE; RADIATION SHIELD; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOLID TUMOR; TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; GAMMA RAYS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; JAPAN; LEUKEMIA; LEUKEMIA, RADIATION-INDUCED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; NEUTRONS; NUCLEAR WARFARE; RADIOMETRY; RISK; STATISTICS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 6344259975     PISSN: 00337587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1667/RR3232     Document Type: Article

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