Radiation unlikely to be responsible for high cancer rates among distal Hiroshima A-bomb survivors

Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 247-249

  Grant, Eric J ^a   Shimizu, Yukiko ^a   Kasagi, Fumiyoshi ^a   Cullings, Harry M ^a   Shore, Roy E ^a  

^a RADIATION EFFECTS RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (Japan)

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Indexed keywords

ATOMIC BOMB SURVIVOR; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; HUMAN; JAPAN; NOTE; RADIATION DOSE; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE;

EID: 77249163707     PISSN: 1342078X     EISSN: 13474715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12199-009-0087-8     Document Type: Note

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