The influence of radon exposures on lung cancer mortality in German uranium miners, 19462003

Radiation Research

Volumn 173, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 79-90

  Walsh, Linda ^a   Tschense, Annemarie ^a   Schnelzer, Maria ^a   Dufey, Florian ^a   Grosche, Bernd ^a   Kreuzer, Michaela ^a  

^a BUNDESAMT FÜR STRAHLENSCHUTZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; RADIOISOTOPE; RADON; SILICON DIOXIDE; URANIUM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FOLLOW UP; GAMMA RADIATION; GERMANY; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINER; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GERMANY; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADON; RISK; TIME FACTORS; URANIUM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 73349132032     PISSN: 00337587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1667/RR1803.1     Document Type: Article

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