Cancer mortality among German aircrew: Second follow-up

Radiation and Environmental Biophysics

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 187-194

  Zeeb, Hajo ^a   Hammer, Gaël P ^a   Langner, Ingo ^b   Schafft, Thomas ^c   Bennack, Sabrina ^a   Blettner, Maria ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^c BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN CANCER; BRAIN TUMORS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; COSMIC RADIATION; CREW MEMBERS; LUNG CANCER; NON-HODGKIN'S LYMPHOMA; RADIATION EXPOSURE; STANDARDIZED MORTALITY RATIOS;

COSMIC RAYS; COSMOLOGY; POPULATION STATISTICS;

RADIOTHERAPY;

AIRCRAFT; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GERMANY; HUMAN; MALE; MORTALITY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RADIATION INDUCED NEOPLASM;

AIRCRAFT; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE;

EID: 77954455885     PISSN: 0301634X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00411-009-0248-6     Document Type: Article

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