Risk of malignancies in relation to terrestrial gamma radiation in a Swedish population cohort

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 409, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 471-477

  Tondel, Martin ^a   Lindgren, Peter ^a   Hellström, Lennart ^b   Löfman, Owe ^c   Fredrikson, Mats ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health   (Sweden)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^d LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Environment; Epidemiology; GIS; Ionizing radiation; Potassium; Thorium; Uranium

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; CONTINUOUS MODELS; COX REGRESSION; ENVIRONMENT; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES; EXPOSURE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIPS; GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GIS; HAZARD RATIO; POPULATION DENSITIES; TERRESTRIAL GAMMA RADIATION; THYROID CANCERS; UP PERIOD;

APARTMENT HOUSES; BUILDINGS; DISEASES; GAMMA RAYS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; POPULATION STATISTICS; POTASSIUM; RADIATION; RADIATION SHIELDING; RADIOACTIVITY; THORIUM; URANIUM;

RADIOTHERAPY;

POTASSIUM; THORIUM; URANIUM;

COHORT ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GIS; POPULATION DENSITY; POTASSIUM; THORIUM; URANIUM;

AGE; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER RISK; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GAMMA RADIATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; IONIZING RADIATION; LEUKEMIA; MALE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION CARCINOGENESIS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION HAZARD; RISK ASSESSMENT; SWEDEN; THYROID CANCER;

COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; GAMMA RAYS; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIOACTIVE POLLUTANTS; SWEDEN;

SWEDEN;

EID: 78649822066     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2010.10.052     Document Type: Article

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