Occupational and diagnostic exposure to ionizing radiation and leukemia risk among German uranium miners

Health Physics

Volumn 99, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 314-321

  Möhner, Matthias ^a   Gellissen, Johannes ^a   Marsh, James W ^b   Gregoratto, Demetrio ^b  

^a FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (Germany)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

epidemiology; leukemia; radon progeny; uranium mines

Indexed keywords

RADON DAUGHTER; URANIUM;

ADULT; BONE MARROW; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; CONFERENCE PAPER; GERMANY; HUMAN; IONIZING RADIATION; LEUKEMIA; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; MINING; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION INDUCED NEOPLASM; RADIOGRAPHY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME; X RAY; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; RADIATION RESPONSE;

ADULT; BONE MARROW; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; GERMANY; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA; LOGISTIC MODELS; MIDDLE AGED; MINING; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SERVICES; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION, IONIZING; RADIOGRAPHY; RADON DAUGHTERS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK; TIME FACTORS; URANIUM; X-RAYS;

EID: 77955646156     PISSN: 00179078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/HP.0b013e3181cd6536     Document Type: Conference Paper

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