Nuclear worker studies: Promise and pitfalls

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 110, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-3

  Wakeford, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER MORTALITY; DOSIMETRY; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL WORKER; LEUKEMIA; LOW ENERGY RADIATION; NUCLEAR INDUSTRY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION PROTECTION;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE;

EID: 84891857780     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: 15321827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/bjc.2013.713     Document Type: Editorial

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