Prostate cancer mortality risk in relation to working underground in the Wismut cohort study of German uranium miners, 1970-2003.

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Published in BMJ Open on June 08, 2012

Authors

Linda Walsh1, Florian Dufey, Annemarie Tschense, Maria Schnelzer, Marion Sogl, Michaela Kreuzer

Author Affiliations

1: Department of "Radiation Protection and Health", Federal Office for Radiation Protection, Oberschleissheim, Germany.

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