ReviewEnvironmental health : a global access science source2011
Radiation and cancer risk: a continuing challenge for epidemiologists.
Review in Environmental health : a global access science source, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
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5 citing papers in PubMed.
- Mechanistic Effects of Environmental and Medical Low-Dose Radiation Exposure of the Lung.Biomedicines · 2026Review
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- Mutations of the human interferon alpha-2b gene in brain tumor patients exposed to different environmental conditions.Cancer gene therapy · 2015Review
- Occupational radon exposure and lung cancer mortality: estimating intervention effects using the parametric g-formula.Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2014Article
- Increased risk of lung cancer associated with a functionally impaired polymorphic variant of the human DNA glycosylase NEIL2.DNA repair · 2012Article
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Abstract
This paper provides a perspective on epidemiological research on radiation and cancer, a field that has evolved over its six decade history. The review covers the current framework for assessing radiation risk and persistent questions about the details of these risks: is there a threshold and more generally, what is the shape of the dose-response relationship? How do risks vary over time and with age? What factors modify the risk of radiation? The example of radon progeny and lung cancer is considered as a case study, illustrating the modeling of epidemiological data to derive quantitative models and the coherence of the epidemiological and biological evidence. Finally, the manuscript considers the need for ongoing research, even in the face of research over a 60-year span.
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