Risk of cancer and non-cancer diseases in the atomic bomb survivors

Radiation Protection Dosimetry

Volumn 146, Issue 1-3, 2011, Pages 272-275

  Ozasa, Kotaro ^a   Shimizu, Yukiko ^a   Sakata, Ritsu ^a   Sugiyama, Hiromi ^a   Grant, Eric J ^a   Soda, Midori ^a   Kasagi, Fumiyoshi ^a   Suyama, Akihiko ^a  

^a RADIATION EFFECTS RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATOMIC BOMB; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; HUMAN; JAPAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; RADIATION INDUCED NEOPLASM; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVOR;

ADULT; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COHORT STUDIES; HUMANS; JAPAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; NUCLEAR WEAPONS; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79960186827     PISSN: 01448420     EISSN: 17423406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rpd/ncr168     Document Type: Article

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