Commentary: Childhood cancer near nuclear power stations

Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Fairlie, Ian ^a  

^a NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON 14; TRITIUM;

CANCER INCIDENCE; CHILDHOOD LEUKEMIA; EMBRYO; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FETUS; GERMANY; HEMATOPOIETIC CELL; HEMATOPOIETIC TISSUE; HUMAN; INFANT; NEWBORN; NOTE; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; NUCLEAR REACTOR; PREGNANT WOMAN; RADIOSENSITIVITY; TERATOGENESIS; ARTICLE; CHILD; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INCIDENCE; LEUKEMIA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RADIATION INDUCED NEOPLASM; RADIATION RESPONSE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; LEUKEMIA, RADIATION-INDUCED; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 70350680128     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1476069X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-069X-8-43     Document Type: Note

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