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FATAL CANCER [4 records]

Record 1 2015-04-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tort Law (common law)
  • Private Law
CONT

Thus when a burn was the reasonably foreseeable type of injury, responsibility extended also to a fatal cancer which developed from an unusual premalignant condition of the victim....

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des délits (common law)
  • Droit privé

Spanish

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Record 2 - external organization data 2005-02-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Cancers and Oncology
  • Compartment - Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission

French

Domaine(s)
  • Cancers et oncologie
  • Tiroir - Commission canadienne de sûreté nucléaire

Spanish

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Record 3 - external organization data 2002-11-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Blood
  • Compartment - Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission
DEF

An often fatal cancer characterized by excessive production of white blood cells.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sang
  • Tiroir - Commission canadienne de sûreté nucléaire
DEF

Cancer souvent mortel caractérisé par la production excessive de globules blancs.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Sangre
  • Compartimiento - Comisión Canadiense de Seguridad Nuclear
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Record 4 - external organization data 2001-06-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Radiological Physics (Theory and Application)
  • Atomic Physics
  • Radiation Protection
  • Compartment - Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission
DEF

A factor by which the dose equivalent received by any organ or tissue of the body is multiplied in order to account for the risk of fatal cancer or inheritable injury resulting from irradiation of that organ or tissue compared to the total risk of such stochastic effects resulting from the receipt of an equal dose equivalent by the whole body...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Physique radiologique et applications
  • Physique atomique
  • Radioprotection
  • Tiroir - Commission canadienne de sûreté nucléaire
DEF

Facteur par lequel est multiplié l'équivalent de dose reçu par un organe ou un tissu donné pour tenir compte des différents risques de cancer fatal ou de lésion héréditaire provoqués par l'irradiation de l'organe ou du tissu, par rapport au risque total de tels effets stochastiques dus à l'irradiation du corps entier à un équivalent de dose égal [...]

CONT

Pour calculer la dose effective, la CCEA adoptera les nouveaux facteurs de pondération des rayonnements et les nouveaux facteurs de pondération des tissus indiqués dans le document ICRP 60.

Spanish

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