Estimating lung cancer mortality from residential radon using data for low exposures of miners

Radiation Research

Volumn 147, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 126-134

  Lubin, Jay H ^a   Tomásek, Ladislav ^b   Edling, Christer ^c   Hornung, Richard W ^d   Howe, Geoffrey ^e   Kunz, Emil ^b   Kusiak, Robert A ^f   Morrison, Howard I ^g   Radford, Edward P ^h   Samet, Jonathan M ⁱ   Tirmarche, Margot ^j   Woodward, Alistair ^k   Yao, Shu Xiang ^l  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RADIATION PROTECTION INSTITUTE   (Czech Republic)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

^e Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^f Occupational Health and Safety Branch   (Canada)

^g HEALTH CANADA   (Canada)

^h Oak Ridge   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^j INSTITUT DE RADIOPROTECTION ET DE SÛRETÉ NUCLÉAIRE IRSN   (France)

^k UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^l Yunnan Tin Corporation   (China)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RADON;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HOME; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MINER; MODEL; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION HAZARD; RISK ASSESSMENT;

AIR POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; COHORT STUDIES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HOUSING; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; MINING; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RADON; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; URANIUM;

EID: 1842411344     PISSN: 00337587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3579412     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. National Research Council, Committee on the Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation, Health Effects of Radon and Other Internally Deposited Alpha Emitters (BEIR IV). National Academy Press, Washington, DC, 1988.
2. J. H. Lubin, J. D. Boice, Jr., C. Edling, R. W. Hornung, G. Howe, E. Kunz, R. A. Kusiak, H. I. Morrison, E. P. Radford, J. M. Samet, M. Tirmarche, A. Woodward, S. X. Yao and D. A. Pierce, Lung Cancer and Radon: A Joint Analysis of 11 Underground Miners Studies. Publication No. 94-3644, U.S. National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 1994.
3. J. H. Lubin, J. D. Boice, Jr., C. Edling, R. W. Hornung, G. Howe, E. Kunz, R. A. Kusiak, H. I. Morrison, E. P. Radford, J. M. Samet, M. Tirmarche, A. Woodward, S. X. Yao and D. A. Pierce, Lung cancer in radon-exposed miners and the estimation of risk from indoor exposure. J. Natl. Cancer Inst. 87, 817-827 (1995).
4. National Research Council, Comparative Dosimetry of Radon in Mines and Homes. National Academy Press, Washington, DC, 1991.
5. F. Marcinowski, R. M. Lucas and W. M. Yeager, National and regional distributions of airborne radon concentrations in U.S. homes. Health Phys. 66, 699-706 (1994).
6. D. J. Brenner and E. J. Hall, The inverse dose-rate effect for oncogenic transformation by neutrons and charged particles: a plausible interpretation consistent with published data. Int. J. Radiat. Biol. 58, 745-758 (1990).
7. D. J. Brenner, E. J. Hall, G. Randers-Pehrson and R. C. Miller, Mechanistic considerations on the dose-rate/LET dependence of oncogenic transformation by ionizing radiation. Radiat. Res. 133, 365-369 (1993).
8. H. H. Rossi and A. M. Kellerer, The dose rate dependence of oncogenic transformation by neutrons may be due to variation of the response during the cell cycle. Int. J. Radiat. Biol. 50, 353-361 (1986).
9. S. C. Darby and R. Doll, Radiation and exposure rate. Nature 344, 824 (1990). [Letter]
10. R. W. Hornung and T. J. Meinhardt, Quantitative risk assessment of lung cancer in U.S. uranium miners. Health Phys. 52, 417-430 (1987).
11. J. Ševc, E. Kunz, L. Tomášek, V. Plaček and J. Horacek, Cancer in man after exposure to Rn daughters. Health Phys. 54, 27-46 (1988).
12. X. Z. Xuan, J. H. Lubin, J. Y. Li and W. J. Blot, A cohort study in southern China of workers exposed to radon and radon decay products. Health Phys. 64, 120-131 (1993).
13. D. J. Brenner, The significance of dose rate in assessing the hazards of domestic radon exposure. Health Phys. 67, 76-79 (1994).
14. J. H. Lubin, J. D. Boice, Jr., C. Edling, R. W. Hornung, G. Howe, E. Kunz, R. A. Kusiak, H. I. Morrison, E. P. Radford, J. M. Samet, M. Tirmarche, A. Woodward and S. X. Yao, Radon-exposed underground miners and the inverse dose-rate (protraction enhancement) effects. Health Phys. 69, 494-500 (1995).
15. E. P. Radford and K. G. St. Clair Renard, Lung cancer in Swedish iron miners exposed to low doses of radon daughters. N. Engl. J. Med. 310, 1485-1494 (1984).
16. H. I. Morrison, R. M. Semenciwm, Y. Mao and D. T. Wigle, Cancer mortality among a group of fluorspar miners exposed to radon progeny. Am. J. Epidemiol. 128, 1266-1275 (1988).
17. L. Tomášek, S. Darby, T. Fearn, A. J. Swerdlow, V. Plaček and E. Kunz. Patterns of lung cancer mortality among uranium miners in West Bohemia with varying rates of exposure to radon and its progeny. Radiat. Res. 137, 251-261 (1994).
18. R. W. Hornung, J. Deddens and R. Roscoe, Modifiers of exposure-response estimates for lung cancer among miners exposed to radon progeny. Environ. Health Perspect. 103 (Suppl. 2), 49-53 (1995).
19. R. A. Kusiak, A. C. Ritchie, J. Muller and J. Springer, Mortality for lung cancer in Ontario uranium miners. Br. J. Ind. Med. 50, 920-928 (1993).
20. J. M. Samet, D. R. Pathak, M. V. Morgan, C. R. Key, A. A. Valdivia and J. H. Lubin, Lung cancer mortality and exposure to Rn progeny in a cohort of New Mexico underground U miners. Health Phys. 61, 745-752 (1991).
21. G. R. Howe, R. C. Nair, H. B. Newcombe, A. B. Miller and J. D. Abbatt, Lung cancer mortality (1950-80) in relation to radon daughter exposure in a cohort of workers at the Eldorado Beaverlodge Uranium Mine. J. Natl Cancer Inst. 77, 357-362 (1986).
22. G. R. Howe, R. C. Nair, H. B. Newcombe, A. B. Miller, J. D. Burch and J. D. Abbatt, Lung cancer mortality (1950-80) in relation to radon daughter exposure in a cohort of workers at the Eldorado Port Radium Uranium Mine: possible modification of risk by exposure rate. J. Natl. Cancer Inst. 79, 1255-1260 (1987).
23. A. Woodward, D. Roder, A. J. McMichael, P. Crouch and A. Mylvaganam, Radon daughter exposures at the Radium Hill Uranium Mine and lung cancer rates among former workers, 1952-87. Cancer Causes Control 2, 213-220 (1991).
24. M. Tirmarche, A. Raphalen, F. Allin, J. Chameaud and P. Bredon, Mortality of a cohort of French uranium miners exposed to relatively low radon concentrations. Br. J. Cancer 67, 1090-1097 (1993).
25. G. R. Howe and R. H. Stager, Risk of lung cancer mortality after exposure to radon decay products in the Beaverlodge cohort based on revised exposure estimates. Radiat. Res. 14, 37-42 (1996).
26. N. M. Laird and F. Mosteller, Some statistical methods for combining experimental results. Int. J. Tech. Assess. Health Care 6, 5-30 (1990).
27. A. Whitehead and J. Whitehead, A general parametric approach to the meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials. Stat. Med. 10, 1665-1677 (1991).
28. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Technical Support Document for the 1992 Citizen's Guide to Radon. EPA 400-R-92-011, May, 1992.
29. J. H. Lubin and J. D. Boice, Jr., Lung cancer risk from residential radon: meta-analysis of eight epidemiologic studies. J. Natl. Cancer Inst. 89, 49-57 (1997).
30. F. D. Lundin, Jr., J. K. Wagoner and V. E. Archer, Radon Daughter Exposure and Respiratory Cancer, Quantitative and Temporal Aspects. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health and National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Joint Monograph No. 1, U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Public Health Service, Washington, DC. 1971.
31. M. V. Morgan and J. M. Samet, Radon daughter exposures of Grants. New Mexico, uranium miners, 1967-1982. Health Phys. 50, 656-662 (1986).
32. National Research Council. Committee on Health Effects of Exposure to Radon, Health Effects of Exposure to Radon (BEIR VI). National Academy Press, Washington, DC, in press.
33. L. A. Stafanski and R. Carroll, Covariate measurement error in logistic regression. Ann. Stat. 13, 1335-1351 (1987).
34. W. E. Cooper, A comparison of radon-daughter exposures calculated for U.S. underground miners based on MSHA and company records. In Radiation Hazards in Mining: Control, Measurement and Medical Aspects (M. Gomez, Ed.), pp. 292-295. Society of Mining Engineers of the American Institute of Mining Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers, New York. 1981.