Radiation Measurement: University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center (Houston, TX, USA) Marilyn Stovall, PhD (PI), Susan Smith, MPH (Quality Assurance Dosimetry Supervisor); New York University (New York, NY, USA) Roy E Shore, PhD, Dr PH (Epidemiologist); International Epidemiology Institute (Rockville, MD, USA) and Vanderbilt University (Nashville, TN, USA) John D Boice Jr, ScD (Consultant).
Radiation Core: University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX – Marilyn Stovall, PhD (Dosimetry Laboratory Director and Chair, Radiation Core); New York University, New York, NY – Roy E Shore, PhD, Dr PH (Epidemiologist); International Epidemiology Institute, Rockville, MD and Vanderbilt University, Nashville TN – John D Boice Jr, ScD (Consultant).
© 2012 Stevanne Auerbach, PhD Dr Toy.
Andrea Gwosdow, PhD: Dr Gwosdow is a professional medical writer supported by Genzyme Corporation.
Prof Bruno Riou, MD, PhD; Prof Charles-Marc Samama, MD, PhD, FCCP; Dr Karim Tazarourte, MD, PhD; Dr Benjamin Tremey, MD; Prof Eric Vicaut, MD, PhD; Dr Bernard Vigué, MD, PhD; Philippe Richardot (Advanced Drug Development Service, Montpellier, France) performed the statistical analysis.
The authors would like to thank Prof. David Coggon (Southampton University, UK), PhD Dr Héléne Sandmark (Örebro University, Sweden), and PD Dr Andreas Seidler Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Healthh, Berlin, Germany), who kindly sent us their questionnaires used in former studies.
We want to thank Mr G. Pire, Deputy of the Health Department of the Province of Liège, and Dr Ph. Maasen.
CFP-Akt-PH, CFP-PLCδ-PH and GFP-Btk-PH were provided by Dr Koichi Okumura (NUS, Singapore).
We thank all the medical staff of the Health centres Guediawaye (conducted by Alioune Gaye, St Martinn (conducted by Sr Marie-Madeleine) and Hopital Principal de Dakar (conducted by Dr Hovette Ph) for their technical support and collection of clinical data.
AA, JMM, SDS, DR, JMB, PH, PS, PT, MT, IL contributed in the preparation and revision of the present manuscript.
DR, JMB, PH, PS, PT, MT, IL participated in the research team, contributed to the study design, execution of the study, interpretation of data, critical revision of the manuscript and approval of the final draft.
