Cancer and non-cancer mortality among inhabitants in the high background radiation area of Yangjiang, China (1979-1998)

Health Physics

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 173-181

  Tao, Zufan ^a   Akiba, Suminori ^b   Zha, Yongru ^c   Sun, Quanfu ^a   Zou, Jianming ^c   Li, Jia ^a   Liu, Yusheng ^a   Yuan, Yongling ^d   Tokonami, Shinji ^e   Morishoma, Hisashige ^f   Koga, Taeko ^c   Nakamura, Seiichi ^g   Sugahara, Tsutomu ^g,h   Wei, Luxin ^a  

^a CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^b KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Guangdong Institute of Prevention and Treatment of Occupational Diseases   (China)

^d Labor Hygiene Institute of Hunan Province   (China)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^f KINKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g HEALTH RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (Japan)

^h KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

environs, terrestrial; epidemiology; radiation risk; radiation, background

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHINA; FEMALE; HUMAN; IONIZING RADIATION; LIVER TUMOR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; RADIATION DOSE; RISK; TIME;

ADULT; AGED; BACKGROUND RADIATION; CHINA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RISK; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84862961258     PISSN: 00179078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/HP.0b013e31822c7f1e     Document Type: Article

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