ArticleCancer causes & control : CCC2013
Lung cancer risk from radon in Ontario, Canada: how many lung cancers can we prevent?
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- Analysis of indoor radon concentration levels and trends in China.Frontiers in public health · 2025Pooled it
- Using the precaution adoption process model and the health belief model to understand radon testing and mitigation: a pre-post quasi-experimental study.BMC public health · 2023Article
- Lung cancer mortality attributable to residential radon: a systematic scoping review.Journal of exposure science & environmental epidemiology · 2023Article
- Recent advances in postoperative pulmonary rehabilitation of patients with non‑small cell lung cancer (Review).International journal of oncology · 2022Review
- Lung Cancer Screening With Low-dose Chest Computed Tomography: Experience From Radon-contaminated Regions in Kazakhstan.Journal of preventive medicine and public health = Yebang Uihakhoe chi · 2022Article
- Estimation of lung cancer deaths attributable to indoor radon exposure in upper northern Thailand.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Impacts of Indoor Radon on Health: A Comprehensive Review on Causes, Assessment and Remediation Strategies.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Review
- Home Radon Testing in Rural Appalachia.The Journal of rural health : official journal of the American Rural Health Association and the National Rural Health Care Association · 2022Article
- Residents' perception and worldview about radon control policy in Canada: A pro-equity social justice lens.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- Radon-222: environmental behavior and impact to (human and non-human) biota.International journal of biometeorology · 2021Review
- Estimating the burden of lung cancer in Canada attributed to occupational radon exposure using a novel exposure assessment method.International archives of occupational and environmental health · 2020Article
- An approach to estimating the environmental burden of cancer from known and probable carcinogens: application to Ontario, Canada.BMC public health · 2020Article
- Are high school girls' lacrosse players at increased risk of concussion because they are not allowed to wear the same helmet boys' lacrosse players are required to wear?Injury epidemiology · 2020Article
- Economic valuation of health benefits from using geologic data to communicate radon risk potential.Environmental health : a global access science source · 2020Article
- Genomic Instability and Carcinogenesis of Heavy Charged Particles Radiation: Clinical and Environmental Implications.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2019Review
- Radon, an invisible killer in Canadian homes: perceptions of Ottawa-Gatineau residents.Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique · 2019Article
- Indoor Radon and Lung Cancer: Estimation of Attributable Risk, Disease Burden, and Effects of Mitigation.Yonsei medical journal · 2018Article
- Quantitative health impact of indoor radon in France.Radiation and environmental biophysics · 2018Article
- Utility gains from reductions in the modifiable burden of lung cancer attributable to residential radon in Canada.Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique · 2018Article
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Abstract
purposeTo calculate the burden of lung cancer illness due to radon for all thirty-six health units in Ontario and determine the number of radon-attributable lung cancer deaths that could be prevented.
methodsWe calculated the population attributable risk percent, excess life-time risk ratio, life-years lost, the number of lung cancer deaths due to radon, and the number of deaths that could be prevented if all homes above various cut-points were effectively reduced to background levels.
resultsIt is estimated that 13.6 % (95 % CI 11.0, 16.7) of lung cancer deaths in Ontario are attributable to radon, corresponding to 847 (95 % CI 686, 1,039) lung cancer deaths each year, approximately 84 % of these in ever-smokers. If all homes above 200 Bq/m(3), the current Canadian guideline, were remediated to background levels, it is estimated that 91 lung cancer deaths could be prevented each year, 233 if remediation was performed at 100 Bq/m(3). There was important variation across health units.
conclusionsRadon is an important contributor to lung cancer deaths in Ontario. A large portion of radon-attributable lung cancer deaths are from exposures below the current Canadian guideline, suggesting interventions that install effective radon-preventive measures into buildings at build may be a good alternative population prevention strategy to testing and remediation. For some health units, testing and remediation may also prevent a portion of radon-related lung cancer deaths. Regional attributable risk estimates can help with local public health resource allocation and decision making.
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