Report of findings : Mortality among a pooled cohort of U.S. nuclear workers exposed to ionizing radiation

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  We studied cancer-related deaths in 119,195 U.S. nuclear workers who were monitored for exposure to ionizing radiation at work. We then compared their death rates to those in the general U.S. population.
  
  Summarizes: Schubauer-Berigan MK, Daniels RD, Bertke SJ, Tseng CY, Richardson DB [2015]. Cancer mortality through 2005 among a pooled cohort of U.S. nuclear workers exposed to external ionizing radiation. Radiat Res. 183:620–631. DOI: 10.1667/RR13988.1 [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 26010709.
  
  inworks_us_pooled_final.pdf
  
  
• Subjects:
  Cohort Studies Gamma Rays/adverse Effects Neoplasms, Radiation-Induced/etiology Neoplasms, Radiation-Induced/mortality Nuclear Reactors Nuclear Weapons Occupational Exposure/adverse Effects
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Pamphlet (or booklet)
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Pages in Document:
  3 unnumbered pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:na
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:a880d3bcc5480c74122e670f2b735e4e355648c4de2db07a9d501255dc11db06e826b890d8de6ab00644943f9d722c1c404bec1caeb908d09b7d9668de7765cf
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/50696/cdc_50696_DS1.pdf
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