Radon-induced lung cancer in French and Czech miner cohorts described with a two-mutation cancer model

Radiation and Environmental Biophysics

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 153-163

  Brugmans, Marco J P ^a   Rispens, Sietse M ^a   Bijwaard, Harmen ^a   Laurier, Dominique ^b   Rogel, Agnes ^b   Tomášek, Ladislav ^c   Tirmarche, Margot ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^b INSTITUT DE RADIOPROTECTION ET DE SÛRETÉ NUCLÉAIRE IRSN   (France)

^c NATIONAL RADIATION PROTECTION INSTITUTE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; EXTRAPOLATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MUTAGENESIS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; TUMORS;

DOSE-RATE RELATIONSHIPS; MORTALITY; RADIATION PARAMETERS; RADON-INDUCED LUNG CANCER;

PULMONARY DISEASES;

RADON; URANIUM;

ARTICLE; CANCER MODEL; CANCER RISK; CELL PROLIFERATION; CLONAL VARIATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE TIME EFFECT RELATION; HUMAN; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MINER; MUTATION RATE; PRECANCER; RADIATION CARCINOGENESIS; RADIATION DEPTH DOSE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SMOKING HABIT; URANIUM MINE;

ALGORITHMS; BODY BURDEN; COHORT STUDIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CZECH REPUBLIC; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; FRANCE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MINING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION MONITORING; RADIOMETRY; RADON; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 9944247698     PISSN: 0301634X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00411-004-0247-6     Document Type: Article

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