Residential radon and lung cancer: End of the story?

Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health - Part A

Volumn 69, Issue 7-8, 2006, Pages 527-531

  Samet, Jonathan M ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RADON; CARCINOGEN;

ARTICLE; CANADA; CANCER RISK; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHINA; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MINING; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION CARCINOGENESIS; RESIDENTIAL HOME; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNITED STATES; AIR POLLUTANT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HISTORY; HOUSING; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; LUNG TUMOR; RADIATION INJURY;

AIR POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; CARCINOGENS, ENVIRONMENTAL; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HOUSING; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; RADON;

EID: 33645904803     PISSN: 15287394     EISSN: 10872620     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15287390500260879     Document Type: Article

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