Increase of regional total cancer incidence in north Sweden due to the Chernobyl accident?

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 58, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1011-1016

  Tondel, Martin ^a   Hjalmarsson, Peter ^a   Hardell, Lennart ^b   Carlsson, Göran ^c   Axelson, Olav ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c Department of Public Health   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CESIUM 137;

CANCER; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; DISEASE PREVALENCE; FALLOUT; HEALTH RISK; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; CHILD; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFANT; LEUKEMIA; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION DENSITY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; STANDARDIZATION; SWEDEN; THYROID CANCER;

ACCIDENTS, RADIATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CESIUM RADIOISOTOPES; CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; POPULATION DENSITY; RADIOACTIVE FALLOUT; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SWEDEN;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN; WORLD;

EID: 9444232790     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.2003.017988     Document Type: Article

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