The cancer mortality in high natural radiation areas in Poland

Dose-Response

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 541-561

  Fornalski, Krzysztof Wojciech ^a   Dobrzyński, Ludwik ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTRE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Poland)

^b CARDINAL STEFAN WYSZY SKI UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Ecological study; Epidemiology; Hormesis; Low dose; Poland; Residential

Indexed keywords

RADON; RADON 226; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; GAMMA RADIATION; HUMAN; IMMIGRATION; IONIZING RADIATION; LONGEVITY; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POLAND; POLLUTION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; UNEMPLOYMENT; WATER POLLUTION;

EID: 84871266194     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15593258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2203/dose-response.11-035.Fornalski     Document Type: Article

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