Independent analysis of the radiation risk for leukaemia in children and adults with mortality data (1950-2003) of Japanese A-bomb survivors

Radiation and Environmental Biophysics

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 17-27

  Kaiser, Jan Christian ^a   Walsh, Linda ^b,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b BUNDESAMT FÜR STRAHLENSCHUTZ   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

A bomb survivors; Leukaemia mortality; Multi model inference; Nonlinear dose response; Radiation risk

Indexed keywords

A-BOMB SURVIVORS; DOSE RESPONSE; LEUKAEMIA MORTALITY; MULTI-MODEL INFERENCE; RADIATION RISK;

BOMBS (ORDNANCE); ESTIMATION; RISK ASSESSMENT;

RISK PERCEPTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ATOMIC BOMB; CHILD; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; LEUKEMIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVOR; THEORETICAL MODEL; YOUNG ADULT; ARTICLE; ASIAN; RADIATION INDUCED NEOPLASM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; LEUKEMIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; NUCLEAR WEAPONS; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84874364982     PISSN: 0301634X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00411-012-0437-6     Document Type: Article

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