Radiation and the risk of chronic lymphocytic and other leukemias among chornobyl cleanup workers

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 121, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 59-65

  Zablotska, Lydia B ^a   Bazyka, Dimitry ^b   Lubin, Jay H ^c   Gudzenko, Nataliya ^b   Little, Mark P ^c   Hatch, Maureen ^c   Finch, Stuart ^d   Dyagil, Irina ^b   Reiss, Robert F ^e   Chumak, Vadim V ^b   Bouville, Andre ^c   Drozdovitch, Vladimir ^c   Kryuchkov, Victor P ^f   Golovanov, Ivan ^f   Bakhanova, Elena ^b   Babkina, Nataliya ^b   Lubarets, Tatiana ^b   Bebeshko, Volodymyr ^b   Romanenko, Anatoly ^b   Mabuchi, Kiyohiko ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b National Research Center for Radiation Medicine   (Ukraine)

^c NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d RUTGERS ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^f INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Chernobyl nuclear accident; Chornobyl; Chronic lymphocytic leukemia; Leukemia; Matched case control study; Radiation; Radiation dose response relationship; Radiation induced leukemia; Ukraine

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHEMOTHERAPY; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; CHRONIC LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RISK; WORKER;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, RADIATION-INDUCED; LYMPHOCYTES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RADIATION, IONIZING;

EID: 84872072510     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1204996     Document Type: Article

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