The risk of cancer from natural background ionizing radiation

Health Physics

Volumn 97, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 637-638

  Wakeford, Richard ^a   Kendall, Gerald M ^b   Little, Mark P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACKGROUND RADIATION; COHORT STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; RADIATION DOSAGE; RISK;

EID: 73649129252     PISSN: 00179078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.HP.0000363834.40051.f7     Document Type: Letter

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