Article
Monitoring exposure to atomic bomb radiation by somatic mutation.
Environmental health perspectives - 1 May 1996
Akiyama M, Kyoizumi S, Kusunoki Y, Hirai Y, Tanabe K, Cologne J B
Abstract excerpt
Atomic bomb survivors are a population suitable for studying the relationship between somatic mutation and cancer risk because their exposure doses are relatively well known and their dose responses in terms of cancer risk have also been thoroughly studied. An analysis has been made of erythrocyt...
Topics
- Adult
- Aged
- Chromosome Aberrations
- Dose-Response Relationship, Radiation
- Environmental Exposure
- Environmental Monitoring
- Epidemiological Monitoring
- Erythrocytes
- Female
- Glycophorins
- Humans
- Japan
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Mutation
- Neoplasms, Radiation-Induced
- Nuclear Warfare
- Survival