Ionizing radiation and kidney cancer among Japanese atomic bomb survivors

Radiation Research

Volumn 173, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 837-842

  Richardson, David B ^a   Hamra, Ghassan ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATOMIC BOMB SURVIVOR; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RISK; CARCINOGENESIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION; IONIZING RADIATION; KIDNEY CANCER; KIDNEY PELVIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RISK; URETER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; COHORT STUDIES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; KIDNEY PELVIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; NUCLEAR WEAPONS; SURVIVORS; URETERAL NEOPLASMS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77953150830     PISSN: 00337587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1667/RR2096.1     Document Type: Article

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