Association between local external gamma rays and frequency of cancer in babol-Iran

Dose-Response

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 368-377

  Monfared, Ali Shabestani ^a   Hajian, Karimollah ^a   Hosseini, Reza ^a   Nasir, Akbar ^a  

^a BABOL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Cancer; Iran; Low dose; Radiation hormesis

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649421729     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15593258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2203/dose-response.09-011.Monfared     Document Type: Article

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