Radon and lung cancer risk: An extension of the mortality follow-up of the Newfoundland fluorspar cohort

Health Physics

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 157-169

  Villeneuve, Paul J ^a,b   Morrison, Howard I ^c   Lane, Rachel ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b Epistream Consulting Inc   (Canada)

^c PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^d CANADIAN NUCLEAR SAFETY COMMISSION   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cancer; Epidemiology; Lungs, human; Radon

Indexed keywords

RADON 220;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CIGARETTE SMOKING; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; FOLLOW UP; GAMMA RADIATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; LUNG VENTILATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINER; MINING; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CALCIUM FLUORIDE; COHORT STUDIES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; NEWFOUNDLAND; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADON; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 33846232693     PISSN: 00179078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.HP.0000239127.43136.89     Document Type: Article

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