Cancer risks and radiation

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 66, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 785-786

  Richardson, David ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CANCER RISK; CLINICAL RESEARCH; EDITORIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; LOW ENERGY RADIATION; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; RADIATION CARCINOGENESIS; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION PROTECTION; HUMAN; NOTE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION INDUCED NEOPLASM; RADIATION RESPONSE;

DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RADIATION DOSAGE;

EID: 73449084803     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: 14707926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.2009.048363     Document Type: Editorial

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