Cancer risk estimates for gamma-rays with regard to organ-specific doses - Part II: Site-specific solid cancers

Radiation and Environmental Biophysics

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 225-231

  Walsh, Linda ^a   Rühm, Werner ^a   Kellerer, Albrecht M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DOSIMETRY; GAMMA RAYS; RADIATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TUMORS;

CANCER RISKS; GALLBLADDER; PANCREAS; RADIATION WEIGHTING FACTORS;

HEALTH RISKS;

AGE; ARTICLE; ATOMIC BOMB SURVIVOR; BLADDER CANCER; BREAST CANCER; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; COLON CANCER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ERROR; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; EXAMINATION; GALLBLADDER CANCER; GAMMA RADIATION; GENDER; LIFESPAN; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NEUTRON RADIATION; OBSERVATION; PANCREAS CANCER; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOSENSITIVITY; RODENT; SOLID TUMOR; STANDARD; UTERUS;

ALGORITHMS; BODY BURDEN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GAMMA RAYS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; NUCLEAR WARFARE; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION MONITORING; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVORS;

RODENTIA;

EID: 9944224982     PISSN: 0301634X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00411-004-0263-6     Document Type: Article

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