A nested case-control study of multiple myeloma risk and uranium exposure among workers at the oak ridge gaseous diffusion plant

Radiation Research

Volumn 171, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 637-645

  Yiin, James H ^a   Anderson, Jeri L ^a   Daniels, Robert D ^a   Seel, Evelyn A ^a   Fleming, Donald A ^a   Waters, Kathleen M ^a   Chen, Pi Hsueh ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MERCURY; NICKEL; TRICHLOROETHYLENE; URANIUM; MERCURY DERIVATIVE; URANIUM DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYING; FEMALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; IONIZING RADIATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; UNITED STATES; URINALYSIS; AGE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION INJURY; RISK; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MERCURY COMPOUNDS; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; NICKEL; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; ODDS RATIO; RADIATION DOSAGE; RISK FACTORS; TENNESSEE; TRICHLOROETHYLENE; URANIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 67849121597     PISSN: 00337587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1667/RR1607.1     Document Type: Article

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