Mortality among workers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Evidence of radiation effects in follow-up through 1984.

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Published in JAMA on March 20, 1991

Authors

S Wing1, C M Shy, J L Wood, S Wolf, D L Cragle, E L Frome

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 27599-7400.

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