Radon and the risk of cancer mortality-internal poisson models for the german uranium miners cohort

Health Physics

Volumn 99, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 292-300

  Walsh, Linda ^b   Dufey, Florian ^b   Tschense, Annemarie ^b   Schnelzer, Maria ^b   Grosche, Bernd ^b   Kreuzer, Michaela ^a  

^a BUNDESAMT FÜR STRAHLENSCHUTZ   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

analysis; carcinogenesis; exposure; mining; radiation; risk; uranium

Indexed keywords

RADIUM; URANIUM;

ADULT; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; GERMANY; HUMAN; LUNG TUMOR; MINING; MORTALITY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION INDUCED NEOPLASM; RISK FACTOR; TIME; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; COMPLICATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY;

ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; GERMANY; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MINING; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIUM; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; URANIUM;

EID: 77955593652     PISSN: 00179078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/HP.0b013e3181cd669d     Document Type: Conference Paper

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