Radiation doses and cancer risks in the Marshall Islands associated with exposure to radioactive fallout from Bikini and Enewetak nuclear weapons tests

Health Physics

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 105-123

  Simon, Steven L ^a   Bouville, André ^a   Land, Charles E ^a   Beck, Harold L ^b  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

cancer; fallout; Marshall Islands; nuclear weapons

Indexed keywords

CESIUM; RADIOISOTOPE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATOMIC BOMB; BODY BURDEN; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; CHILD; CLASSIFICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA; GEOGRAPHY; HISTORY; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION INDUCED NEOPLASM; RADIOACTIVE WASTE; RISK ASSESSMENT; TIME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY BURDEN; CESIUM RADIOISOTOPES; CHILD; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GEOGRAPHY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MICRONESIA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; NUCLEAR WEAPONS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOACTIVE FALLOUT; RADIOISOTOPES; RISK ASSESSMENT; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77954731036     PISSN: 00179078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/HP.0b013e3181dc523c     Document Type: Article

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