Lung cancer and residential radon in never-smokers: A pooling study in the Northwest of Spain

M Lorenzo-González, A Ruano-Ravina… - Environmental …, 2019 - Elsevier
… in recent years in Northwestern Spain which investigated residential radon and lung cancer.
All … Residential radon was measured using alpha track detectors at the Galician Radon

Lung cancer risk and residential radon exposure: A pooling of case-control studies in northwestern Spain

M Lorenzo-Gonzalez, A Ruano-Ravina… - Environmental …, 2020 - Elsevier
… studies performed in northwest Spain that investigated residential radon and lung cancer. …
Residential radon was measured using alpha track detectors. Results were analyzed using …

Exposure to residential radon and lung cancer in Spain: a population-based case-control study

JM Barros-Dios, MA Barreiro… - American Journal of …, 2002 - academic.oup.com
… miners, epidemiologic studies of residential radon exposure display inconsistencies. …
northwest Spain to determine the risk of lung cancer associated with exposure to residential radon. …

Residential radon in Galicia: a cross-sectional study in a radon-prone area

M Lorenzo-González, A Ruano-Ravina… - Journal of …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
… 8256 residential measurements which represent the Spanish … Galicia, located in the northwest
of Spain, started its own … Galicia is the region of Spain with the highest residential radon

Factors underlying residential radon concentration: results from Galicia, Spain

JM Barros-Dios, A Ruano-Ravina, J Gastelu-Iturri… - Environmental …, 2007 - Elsevier
… Galicia is a region situated in NW Spain, having a surface area of 29,000 sq. km. and a … In
conclusion, Galicia can be said to be a region of Spain having an elevated radon emission, as …

[HTML][HTML] Residential radon and cancer mortality in Galicia, Spain

G López-Abente, O Núñez… - Science of the Total …, 2018 - Elsevier
… The aim of this study was to assess the association between residential radon levels and
mortality due to different types of cancer in a radon-prone area such as Galicia (NW Spain). …

Residential radon exposure and esophageal cancer. An ecological study from an area with high indoor radon concentration (Galicia, Spain)

A Ruano-Ravina, N Aragonés… - … journal of radiation …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
… The study was performed in Galicia, Northwest Spain. The boundaries of Galicia to the
north and west are marked by the Atlantic Ocean, to the south by Portugal and to the east by …

Residential radon and COPD. An ecological study in Galicia, Spain

R Barbosa-Lorenzo, A Ruano-Ravina… - … Journal of Radiation …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
… The study was performed in Galicia, northwest of Spain. Galicia has a population of … It
has 315 municipalities, which is the basic administrative unit in Spain. Galicia has a universal …

[HTML][HTML] Lung cancer mortality attributable to residential radon exposure in Spain and its regions

A Ruano-Ravina, LV Lema, MG Talavera… - Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
… highlight that exposure to residential radon is an important cause of lung cancer mortality in
Spain, causing 3.8% of all … exposure: a pooling of case-control studies in northwestern Spain

Residential radon and cancers other than lung cancer: a cohort study in Galicia, a Spanish radon-prone area

R Barbosa-Lorenzo, JM Barros-Dios… - European journal of …, 2016 - Springer
Radon has a proven effect on lung cancer [2]. However, there … was to ascertain whether
residential radon exposure might be … in a radon-prone area such as Galicia, Northwestern Spain. …