Joint analysis of three European nested case-control studies of lung cancer among radon exposed miners: Exposure restricted to below 300 WLM

Health Physics

Volumn 104, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 282-292

  Hunter, Nezahat ^a   Muirhead, Colin R ^b   Tomasek, Ladislav ^c   Kreuzer, Michaela ^d   Laurier, Dominique ^e   Leuraud, Klervi ^f   Schnelzer, Maria ^d   Grosche, Bernd ^d   Placek, Vit ^c   Heribanova, Alena ^c   Timarche, Margot ^e  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL RADIATION PROTECTION INSTITUTE   (Czech Republic)

^d BUNDESAMT FÜR STRAHLENSCHUTZ   (Germany)

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

^f INSTITUT DE VEILLE SANITAIRE   (France)

Author keywords

cancer; health effects; human; lungs; radon

Indexed keywords

RADON;

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; EUROPE; HOUSING; HUMAN; LUNG TUMOR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINING; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RADIATION INDUCED NEOPLASM; SMOKING; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TIME;

AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; EUROPE; HOUSING; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RADON; SMOKING; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84873357052     PISSN: 00179078     EISSN: 15385159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/HP.0b013e3182765857     Document Type: Article

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