Health effects of radon: A review of the literature

International Journal of Radiation Biology

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 57-69

  Al Zoughool, Mustafa ^a   Krewski, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Genetic damage; Leukemia; Lung cancer; Radon

Indexed keywords

CARCINOGEN; DRINKING WATER; RADON; TOBACCO SMOKE;

CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CELL CULTURE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CYTOGENETICS; DEATH; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC DAMAGE; HEALTH; HEALTH HAZARD; HEREDITY; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; LEUKEMIA; LOW ENERGY RADIATION; LUNG CANCER; LUNG CARCINOGENESIS; MINER; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SMOKING;

AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MINING; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; RADON; WATER POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE;

ANIMALIA; NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 60749103679     PISSN: 09553002     EISSN: 13623095     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09553000802635054     Document Type: Review

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