Risk of thyroid cancer among chernobyl liquidators

Radiation Research

Volumn 178, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 425-436

  Kesminiene, Ausrele ^a   Evrard, Anne Sophie ^a,j   Ivanov, Viktor K ^b   Malakhova, Irina V ^c   Kurtinaitise, Juozas ^d   Stengrevics, Aivars ^e   Tekkel, Mare ^f   Chekin, Sergei ^a   Drozdovitch, Vladimir ^a   Gavrilin, Yuri ^g   Golovanov, Ivan ^g   Kryuchkov, Viktor P ^g   MacEika, Evaldas ^h   Mirkhaidarov, Anatoly K ⁱ   Polyakov, Semion ^c   Tenet, Vanessa ^a   Tukov, Aleksandr R ^g   Byrnes, Graham ^a   Cardis, Elisabeth ^a,d,e,k,l,m  

^a INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER   (France)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL CHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

^c Republican Scientific and Practical Center for Medical Technologies   (Belarus)

^d VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^e Latvian Centre of Oncology   (Latvia)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH DEVELOPMENT   (Estonia)

^g INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^h CENTER FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (Lithuania)

ⁱ Republican Scientific Centre of Radiation Medicine and Human Ecology   (Belarus)

^j University Lyon   (France)

^k CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN ENVIRONMENTAL EPIDEMIOLOGY CREAL   (Spain)

^l INST MUNIC D INVESTIGACIO MEDICA   (Spain)

^m CIBER EPIDEMIOLOGÍA Y SALUD PÚBLICA CIBERESP   (Spain)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

IODINE 131;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BELARUS; CANCER RISK; CANCER SIZE; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SMOKING; THYROID CANCER; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA;

BALTIC STATES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; HUMANS; IODINE ISOTOPES; LYMPH NODES; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RADIOACTIVE HAZARD RELEASE; REPUBLIC OF BELARUS; RISK FACTORS; RUSSIA; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84868628466     PISSN: 00337587     EISSN: 19385404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1667/RR2975.1     Document Type: Article

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