Interaction of radon and smoking among czech uranium miners

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 145, Issue 2-3, 2011, Pages 238-242

  Tomasek, L ^a  

^a NATIONAL RADIATION PROTECTION INSTITUTE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RADON; URANIUM;

ADULT; AGED; AIR POLLUTANT; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; LUNG TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; MINING; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RADIATION INDUCED NEOPLASM; RADIATION RESPONSE; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIR POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COHORT STUDIES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; MINING; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RADON; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; URANIUM;

EID: 79957505221     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: 17423406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/ncr048     Document Type: Article

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