Lung cancer mortality in the European uranium miners cohorts analyzed with a biologically based model taking into account radon measurement error

Radiation and Environmental Biophysics

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 263-275

  Heidenreich, W F ^a   Tomasek, L ^b   Grosche, B ^c   Leuraud, K ^d   Laurier, D ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL RADIATION PROTECTION INSTITUTE   (Czech Republic)

^c BUNDESAMT FÜR STRAHLENSCHUTZ   (Germany)

^d INSTITUT DE RADIOPROTECTION ET DE SÛRETÉ NUCLÉAIRE IRSN   (France)

Author keywords

Biologically based model; Radon measurement error; Uranium miners

Indexed keywords

BERKSON; CLONAL EXPANSION; CZECH REPUBLIC; DATA SETS; EXPOSURE RATE; GERMANY; LAG-TIME; LUNG CANCER MORTALITY; MODEL PARAMETERS; RADON MEASUREMENTS; RELATIVE RISKS; TWO PARAMETER; TWO-STAGE CLONAL EXPANSIONS;

BIOPHYSICS;

MINERS;

RADON; URANIUM;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COHORT ANALYSIS; EUROPE; FACTUAL DATABASE; HUMAN; LUNG TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; MINING; MORTALITY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RADIATION INDUCED NEOPLASM; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ARTIFACTS; COHORT STUDIES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EUROPE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MINING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RADON; RESEARCH DESIGN; URANIUM;

EID: 84864458191     PISSN: 0301634X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00411-012-0423-z     Document Type: Article

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