Mortality (1950-1999) and cancer incidence (1969-1999) in the cohort of Eldorado uranium workers

Radiation Research

Volumn 174, Issue 6 A, 2010, Pages 773-785

  Lane, Rachel S D ^a   Frost, Stanley E ^b   Howe, Geoffrey R ^c   Zablotska, Lydia B ^d  

^a CANADIAN NUCLEAR SAFETY COMMISSION   (Canada)

^b Frost and Frost Consultants   (Canada)

^c Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RADIUM; RADON; URANIUM;

ARTICLE; CANADA; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GAMMA RADIATION; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINER; MINING; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOISOTOPE DECAY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINING; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; RADON; TIME FACTORS; URANIUM;

EID: 78650034191     PISSN: 00337587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1667/RR2237.1     Document Type: Article

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