Mortality associated with chronic external radiation exposure in the French combined cohort of nuclear workers

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 70, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 630-638

  Metz Flamant, C ^a   Laurent, O ^a   Samson, E ^a   Caer Lorho S ^a   Acker, A ^b   Hubert, D ^c   Richardson, D B ^a,d   Laurier, D ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE RADIOPROTECTION ET DE SÛRETÉ NUCLÉAIRE IRSN   (France)

^b AREVA NP   (France)

^c DPI/DPN EM   (France)

^d The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FRANCE; GAMMA RADIATION; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL WORKER; IONIZING RADIATION; LEUKEMIA; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROANGIOPATHY; MORTALITY; MYELOID LEUKEMIA; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION RESPONSE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOLID TUMOR; X IRRADIATION;

ADULT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; FRANCE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIATION, IONIZING; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84882452585     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: 14707926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oemed-2012-101149     Document Type: Article

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