Thyroid cancer after chernobyl:Obfuscated truth

Dose-Response

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 471-476

  Jargin, Sergei V ^a  

^a PEOPLES FRIENDSHIP UNIVERSITY OF RUSSIA   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IODINE; RADIOACTIVE IODINE;

ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RISK; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; CHILDHOOD CANCER; HUMAN; IONIZING RADIATION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION INDUCED NEOPLASM; RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION; THYROID CANCER; THYROID FOLLICULAR CARCINOMA; THYROID PAPILLARY CARCINOMA;

EID: 83455250389     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15593258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2203/dose-response.11-001.Jargin     Document Type: Article

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