The 15-Country Collaborative Study of Cancer Risk Among Radiation Workers in the Nuclear Industry: design, epidemiological methods and descriptive results.

Vrijheid, M; Cardis, E; Blettner, M; Gilbert, E; Hakama, M; Hill, C; Howe, G; Kaldor, J; R Muirhead, C; Schubauer-Berigan, M; Yoshimura, T; Ahn, Y-O; Ashmore, P; Auvinen, A; Bae, J-M; Engels, H; Gulis, G; R Habib, R; Hosoda, Y; Kurtinaitis, J; Malker, H; Moser, M; Rodriguez-Artalejo, F; Rogel, A; Tardy, H; Telle-Lamberton, M; Turai, I; Usel, M; Veress, K

doi:10.1667/rr0554.1

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The 15-Country Collaborative Study of Cancer Risk Among Radiation Workers in the Nuclear Industry: design, epidemiological methods and descriptive results.

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M Vrijheid

E Cardis

M Blettner

Abstract

Radiation protection standards are based mainly on risk estimates from studies of atomic bomb survivors in Japan. The validity of extrapolations from the relatively high-dose acute exposures in this population to the low-dose, protracted or fractionated environmental and occupational exposures of pr...

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