Residential radon in Canada: An uncertainty analysis of population and individual lung cancer risk

Risk Analysis

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 253-269

  Brand, Kevin P ^a   Zielinski, Jan M ^a,b   Krewski, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b HEALTH CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Life years lost; Lifetime relative risk; Lung cancer; Population attributable risk; Radon; Uncertainty analysis; Variability

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POPULATION STATISTICS; PULMONARY DISEASES; RADON; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TUMORS;

EXCESS LIFETIME RISK RATIO (ELRR); LIFE-YEAR LOST (LYL); U.S. NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL (US-NRC); UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

RADON;

CANCER; RADON; RESIDENTIAL LOCATION; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ARTICLE; CANADA; CANCER RISK; HEALTH HAZARD; HOME; HUMAN; LIFE TABLE; LUNG CANCER; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; POPULATION RISK; SMOKING; UNCERTAINTY;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

RICKETTSIA SP. PAR;

EID: 18644385615     PISSN: 02724332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1539-6924.2005.00587.x     Document Type: Article

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