Lifetime risk of lung cancer due to radon exposure projected to Japanese and Swedish populations

Health Physics

Volumn 80, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 552-562

  Doi, Masahiro ^a   Nakamura, Yuji ^a   Sakashita, Tetsuya ^a   Ogiu, Nobuko ^a   Lagarde, Frédéric ^b   Falk, Rolf ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c Swedish Radiation Protection Authority   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Alpha particles; Epidemiology; Radon; Risk analysis

Indexed keywords

RADON; RADON DAUGHTER;

ADULT; ALPHA RADIATION; ARTICLE; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER RISK; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; LUNG CANCER; MALE; MODEL; MORTALITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SWEDEN; TIME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0035011147     PISSN: 00179078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004032-200106000-00005     Document Type: Article

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