RadRAT: A radiation risk assessment tool for lifetime cancer risk projection

Journal of Radiological Protection

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 205-222

  De Gonzalez, Amy Berrington ^a   Iulian Apostoaei, A ^b   Veiga, Lene H S ^c   Rajaraman, Preetha ^b   Thomas, Brian A ^b   Owen Hoffman, F ^b   Gilbert, Ethel ^a   Land, Charles ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b SENES Oak Ridge Incorporated   (United States)

^c Brazilian Nuclear Energy Commission   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC BOMB SURVIVORS; BEIR VII; CANCER RISK; EXCESS RELATIVE RISKS; EXPOSURE AGE; GENERAL POPULATION; LIFETIME RISK ESTIMATES; LOGARITHMIC SCALE; LONG-TERM FOLLOW-UP; LOW DOSE RADIATION; LOW-LET RADIATION; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PROJECTION METHOD; RADIATION RISK; RISK MODEL; SITE-SPECIFIC; STATISTICAL POWER; UNCERTAINTY INTERVALS;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; DISEASES; ESTIMATION; RADIOTHERAPY; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

RISK PERCEPTION;

ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; ONLINE SYSTEM; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION INDUCED NEOPLASM; RADIATION RESPONSE; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNCERTAINTY; UNITED STATES;

DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; MALE; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNCERTAINTY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84864619724     PISSN: 09524746     EISSN: 13616498     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0952-4746/32/3/205     Document Type: Article

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