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Appendix E: Fifteen-Country Workers Study
Pages 336-336

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... Analyses of smokingcluded 407,391 nuclear industry workers who were em- and non-smoking-related causes of death indicate that alployed for at least one year in a participating facility and though confounding by smoking may be present, it is unwho were monitored individually for external radiation. The likely to explain all of this increased risk.
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