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Article: Lung cancer attributable to indoor radon exposure in France: impact of the risk models and uncertainty analysis.(Research)
- Article from:
- Environmental Health Perspectives
- Article date:
- September 1, 2006
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OBJECTIVE: The inhalation of radon, a well-established human carcinogen, is the principal--and omnipresent--source of radioactivity exposure for the general population of most countries. Scientists have thus sought to assess the lung cancer risk associated with indoor radon. Our aim here is to assess this risk in France, using all available epidemiologic results and performing an uncertainty analysis.
METHODS: We examined the exposure-response relations derived from cohorts of miners and from joint analyses of residential case-control studies and considered the interaction between radon and tobacco. The exposure data come from measurement campaigns conducted since ...