Heterogeneity of variation of relative risk by age at exposure in the Japanese atomic bomb survivors

Radiation and Environmental Biophysics

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 253-262

  Little, Mark P ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE-AT-EXPOSURE; ATOMIC BOMB SURVIVORS; DATA SETS; EXPOSURE AGE; LINEAR FUNCTIONS; PRESTON; QUADRATIC VARIATIONS; RELATIVE RISKS; SOLID CANCER; U-SHAPED;

BOMBS (ORDNANCE); FLUORINE CONTAINING POLYMERS;

ATOMS;

AGING; ARTICLE; ATOMIC BOMB SURVIVOR; BLADDER CANCER; BRAIN CANCER; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPANESE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RADIATION CARCINOGENESIS; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RISK FACTOR; SOLID TUMOR; THYROID CANCER; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ATOMIC BOMB; CHILD; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; JAPAN; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RADIATION INJURY; RISK; SEX RATIO; STATISTICS; SURVIVOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; NUCLEAR WEAPONS; RISK; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SURVIVORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349786787     PISSN: 0301634X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00411-009-0228-x     Document Type: Article

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