Occupational radon exposure and lung cancer mortality: Estimating intervention effects using the porometric g-formulo

Epidemiology

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 829-834

  Edwards, Jessie K ^a   McGrath, Leah J ^a   Buckley, Jessie P ^a   Schubauer Berigan, Mary K ^b   Cole, Stephen R ^a   Richardson, David B ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RADON; AIR POLLUTANT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEATH; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LABORATORY; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POLICY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAFETY; STANDARD; URANIUM MINE; VERY ELDERLY; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AIR POLLUTANT; CAUSE OF DEATH; EPIDEMIOLOGY; LUNG TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; MINING; MORTALITY; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; RADIATION INDUCED NEOPLASM; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOXICITY; UNITED STATES;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIR POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE; CAUSE OF DEATH; COLORADO; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINING; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RADON; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84927758824     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: 15315487     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/EDE.0000000000000164     Document Type: Article

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