Multifactorial study of the risk of lung cancer among French uranium miners: Radon, smoking and silicosis

Health Physics

Volumn 97, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 613-621

  Amabile, Jean Christophe ^a   Leuraud, Klervi ^b   Vacquier, Blandine ^b   Caër Lorho, Sylvaine ^b   Acker, Alain ^c   Laurier, Dominique ^b  

^a French Defense Radiation Protection Service (SPRA)   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE RADIOPROTECTION ET DE SÛRETÉ NUCLÉAIRE IRSN   (France)

^c AREVA NP   (France)

Author keywords

Cancer; Cigarettes; Human; Lungs; Mining; Uranium

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BODY BURDEN; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FRANCE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINING; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RADON; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SILICOSIS; SMOKING; URANIUM;

EID: 73649093806     PISSN: 00179078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.HP.0000363842.62922.58     Document Type: Article

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