Overestimation of Chernobyl consequences: Calculation of a latent period for tumors with unproven radiation etiology

Radiation and Environmental Biophysics

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 433-434

  Jargin, Sergei V ^a  

^a PEOPLES FRIENDSHIP UNIVERSITY OF RUSSIA   (Russian Federation)

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Indexed keywords

CALCULATION; CARCINOGENESIS; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; IONIZING RADIATION; LATENT PERIOD; LETTER; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; RADIATION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SOLID TUMOR; THYROID CARCINOMA; TUMOR;

CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 70350534547     PISSN: 0301634X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00411-009-0242-z     Document Type: Letter

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