Lung cancer mortality among Czech uranium miners - 60years since exposure

Journal of Radiological Protection

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 301-314

  Tomasek, Ladislav ^a  

^a NATIONAL RADIATION PROTECTION INSTITUTE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE-AT-EXPOSURE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CUMULATIVE EXPOSURES; EXCESS RELATIVE RISKS; EXPOSURE RATE; EXPOSURE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIPS; HIGH EXPOSURES; LUNG CANCER; LUNG CANCER MORTALITY; PER UNIT; RADON DECAY PRODUCTS; RELIABLE ESTIMATES;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; DISEASES;

MINERS;

RADON; URANIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CZECH REPUBLIC; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LUNG TUMOR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINING; MORTALITY; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION INDUCED NEOPLASM; RADIATION RESPONSE; RISK;

ADULT; AGED; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CZECH REPUBLIC; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINING; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADON; RISK; URANIUM;

EID: 84864587690     PISSN: 09524746     EISSN: 13616498     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0952-4746/32/3/301     Document Type: Review

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