Image gently: A campaign to reduce children's and adolescents' risk for cancer during adulthood

Journal of Adolescent Health

Volumn 52, Issue 5 SUPPL, 2013, Pages

  Applegate, Kimberly E ^a   Cost, Nicholas G ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Cancer risk; Children; Image Gently; Ionizing radiation; Radiation protection

Indexed keywords

BIRTH DEFECT; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER RISK; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL DAMAGE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DNA DAMAGE; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; IONIZING RADIATION; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION INDUCED NEOPLASM; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIATION SAFETY; RADIOLOGY DEPARTMENT; RADIOSENSITIVITY; REVIEW; RISK REDUCTION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84876545940     PISSN: 1054139X     EISSN: 18791972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2013.03.006     Document Type: Review

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