Radon exposure and lung cancer: risk in nonsmokers among cohort studies

Eleven cohorts of miners occupationally exposed to relatively high concentrations of radon showed a statistically significantly high risk of lung cancer, while three cohorts from the general population showed a relatively low concentration, but the results were not statistically significant. However...

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Main Authors:	Oh, Sung-Soo, Koh, Sangbaek, Kang, Heetae, Lee, Jonggu
Format:	Online
Language:	English
Published:	BioMed Central 2016
Online Access:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4784449/

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spelling	pubmed-47844492016-03-10 Radon exposure and lung cancer: risk in nonsmokers among cohort studies Oh, Sung-Soo Koh, Sangbaek Kang, Heetae Lee, Jonggu Review Eleven cohorts of miners occupationally exposed to relatively high concentrations of radon showed a statistically significantly high risk of lung cancer, while three cohorts from the general population showed a relatively low concentration, but the results were not statistically significant. However, the risk of lung cancer tended to increase with increased radon exposure. The risk is likely to have been underestimated due to low statistical power. Therefore, additional well-designed studies on the risk of lung cancer in nonsmokers in the general population with relatively low concentrations of radon exposure are needed in the future. BioMed Central 2016-03-09 /pmc/articles/PMC4784449/ /pubmed/26962458 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40557-016-0099-y Text en © Oh et al. 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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author	Oh, Sung-Soo Koh, Sangbaek Kang, Heetae Lee, Jonggu
spellingShingle	Oh, Sung-Soo Koh, Sangbaek Kang, Heetae Lee, Jonggu Radon exposure and lung cancer: risk in nonsmokers among cohort studies
author_facet	Oh, Sung-Soo Koh, Sangbaek Kang, Heetae Lee, Jonggu
author_sort	Oh, Sung-Soo
title	Radon exposure and lung cancer: risk in nonsmokers among cohort studies
title_short	Radon exposure and lung cancer: risk in nonsmokers among cohort studies
title_full	Radon exposure and lung cancer: risk in nonsmokers among cohort studies
title_fullStr	Radon exposure and lung cancer: risk in nonsmokers among cohort studies
title_full_unstemmed	Radon exposure and lung cancer: risk in nonsmokers among cohort studies
title_sort	radon exposure and lung cancer: risk in nonsmokers among cohort studies
description	Eleven cohorts of miners occupationally exposed to relatively high concentrations of radon showed a statistically significantly high risk of lung cancer, while three cohorts from the general population showed a relatively low concentration, but the results were not statistically significant. However, the risk of lung cancer tended to increase with increased radon exposure. The risk is likely to have been underestimated due to low statistical power. Therefore, additional well-designed studies on the risk of lung cancer in nonsmokers in the general population with relatively low concentrations of radon exposure are needed in the future.
publisher	BioMed Central
publishDate	2016
url	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4784449/
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Radon exposure and lung cancer: risk in nonsmokers among cohort studies

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