Beyond two-stage models for lung carcinogenesis in the Mayak workers: implications for plutonium risk.

Mechanistic multi-stage models are used to analyze lung-cancer mortality after Plutonium exposure in the Mayak-workers cohort, with follow-up until 2008. Besides the established two-stage model with clonal expansion, models with three mutation stages as well as a model with two distinct pathways to...

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Main Authors: Sascha Zöllner, Mikhail E Sokolnikov, Markus Eidemüller
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4441484?pdf=render