Risk of leukaemia mortality from exposure to ionising radiation in US nuclear workers: A pooled case-control study

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 41-48

  Daniels, Robert D ^a   Bertke, Stephen ^a   Waters, Kathleen M ^a   Schubauer Berigan, Mary K ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZENE; PLUTONIUM; TRITIUM;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHRONIC LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IONIZING RADIATION; LEUKEMIA; LEUKEMOGENESIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUTRON RADIATION; NUCLEAR INDUSTRY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION HAZARD; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNITED STATES;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; HUMANS; INDUSTRY; LEUKEMIA; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; NUCLEAR REACTORS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION, IONIZING; RISK FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84871770227     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: 14707926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oemed-2012-100906     Document Type: Article

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