Long-term effects of radiation exposure on health

The Lancet

Volumn 386, Issue 9992, 2015, Pages 469-478

  Kamiya, Kenji ^a   Ozasa, Kotaro ^b   Akiba, Suminori ^d   Niwa, Ohstura ^e   Kodama, Kazunori ^c   Takamura, Noboru ^f   Zaharieva, Elena K ^a   Kimura, Yuko ^f   Wakeford, Richard ^g  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Department of Epidemiology ^*  (Japan)

^c RADIATION EFFECTS RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (Japan)

^d KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e FUKUSHIMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CESIUM; IODINE;

ACUTE MYELOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ARTICLE; ATOMIC BOMB; ATOMIC BOMB SURVIVOR; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; FALLOUT; FOLLOW UP; FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; GAMMA RADIATION; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MULTIPLE CANCER; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION INDUCED NEOPLASM; RADIATION PROTECTION; AGE; ATOMIC WARFARE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; JAPAN; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIATION RESPONSE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURVIVOR; TIME; UKRAINE;

AGE FACTORS; CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; HUMANS; JAPAN; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; NUCLEAR WARFARE; NUCLEAR WEAPONS; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOACTIVE HAZARD RELEASE; SURVIVORS; TIME FACTORS; UKRAINE;

EID: 84938563709     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(15)61167-9     Document Type: Review

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