Letter to the editor: On the radiation-leukemia dose-response relationship among recovery workers after the chernobyl accident

Dose-Response

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 162-165

  Jargin, Sergei V ^a  

^a PEOPLES FRIENDSHIP UNIVERSITY OF RUSSIA   (Russian Federation)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOSE RESPONSE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; IONIZING RADIATION; LEUKEMIA; LIQUIDATOR; NONHUMAN; NONMEDICAL OCCUPATIONS; NUCLEAR ENERGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION HAZARD; RECOVERY OPERATION WORKER;

EID: 84895419468     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15593258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2203/dose-response.13-031.Jargin     Document Type: Article

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