Cancer risks after radiation exposure in middle age

Journal of the National Cancer Institute

Volumn 102, Issue 21, 2010, Pages 1628-1636

  Shuryak, Igor ^a   Sachs, Rainer K ^b   Brenner, David J ^a  

^a NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATOMIC BOMB SURVIVOR; BLADDER CANCER; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CELL; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RISK; COLON CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; HUMAN; IONIZING RADIATION; JAPANESE; LIVER CANCER; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRECANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION CARCINOGENESIS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION HAZARD; RADIATION INDUCED NEOPLASM; RADIATION INJURY; RISK REDUCTION; STOMACH CANCER; TUMOR PROMOTION;

ADULT; ADVISORY COMMITTEES; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; NUCLEAR WARFARE; PRECANCEROUS CONDITIONS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVORS; WORLD WAR II;

EID: 78149336650     PISSN: 00278874     EISSN: 14602105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jnci/djq346     Document Type: Article

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