Increased lung cancer risk due to residential radon in a pooled and extended analysis of studies in Germany

HE Wichmann, AS Rosario, IM Heid, M Kreuzer… - Health …, 2005 - journals.lww.com
Residential radon has been shown to be a risk factor for lung cancer in several studies—but
with limited power in each single study. The data of two case-control studies performed …

Radon—the element of risk. The impact of radon exposure on human health

A Grzywa-Celińska, A Krusiński, J Mazur, K Szewczyk… - Toxics, 2020 - mdpi.com
Lung cancer is a heterogeneous group of diseases with multifactorial aetiology. Smoking
has been undeniably recognized as the main aetiological factor in lung cancer, but it should …

Room for a role for radon in lung cancer causation?

O Axelson - Medical Hypotheses, 1984 - Elsevier
Reduced ventilation due to energy saving has focussed interest on a potential lung cancer
risk from increased indoor concentrations of alpha-emitting radon and radon daughters …

Case-control study of residential radon and lung cancer among New Jersey women

JB Schoenberg, JB Klotz, HB Wilcox, GP Nicholls… - Cancer Research, 1990 - AACR
To evaluate the association of indoor radon exposure with lung cancer risk, yearlong α track
detector measurements of radon were conducted in dwellings which had been occupied for …

[PDF][PDF] Meta-analysis of residential exposure to radon gas and lung cancer

M Pavia, A Bianco, C Pileggi… - Bulletin of the World …, 2003 - SciELO Public Health
OBJECTIVES: To investigate the relation between residential exposure to radon and lung
cancer. METHODS: A literature search was performed using Medline and other sources. The …

Residential radon and lung cancer

A Ruano-Ravina, MC Rodríguez… - …, 2009 - journals.lww.com
Residential radon exposure causes lung cancer. The International Agency for Research on
Cancer declared radon as a human carcinogen in 1988. 1 Evidence for this statement is …

Combined analysis of onco-epidemiological studies of the relationship between lung cancer and indoor radon exposure

IV Yarmoshenko, GP Malinovsky - Nukleonika, 2020 - sciendo.com
Objectives: Recent results of epidemiological and medical statistics studies of lung cancer
and indoor radon in different regions of the world make a relevant new combined analysis of …

Lung cancer in lifetime nonsmoking men–results of a case-control study in Germany

M Kreuzer, M Gerken, L Kreienbrock… - British journal of …, 2001 - nature.com
Epidemiological studies of lung cancer among nonsmoking men are few. This case–control
study was conducted among lifetime nonsmoking men between 1990 and 1996 in Germany …

Prevalence of oncogenic driver mutations in Hispanics/Latin patients with lung cancer. A systematic review and meta-analysis

R Parra-Medina, JP Castañeda-González, L Montoya… - Lung Cancer, 2023 - Elsevier
Introduction The frequency of actionable mutations varies between races, and
Hispanic/Latino (H/L) people are a population with different proportions of ancestry. Our …

Quantitative evaluation of the lung cancer deaths attributable to residential radon: a simple method and results for all the 21 Italian Regions

F Bochicchio, S Antignani, G Venoso… - Radiation …, 2013 - Elsevier
Pooled analyses of epidemiological case--control studies on lung cancer and residential
radon have shown that radon exposure in dwellings increases lung cancer risk, and that the …