ArticleCancer causes & control : CCC2015
Lung cancer risk from radon exposure in dwellings in Sweden: how many cases can be prevented if radon levels are lowered?
Article in Cancer causes & control : CCC, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Analysis of indoor radon concentration levels and trends in China.Frontiers in public health · 2025Pooled it
- Radon-Induced Radiation Biomarkers: A Scoping Review from Exposure Dosimetry to Early Biological Effects on the Lung.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Article
- Impact of Climate Change on Indoor Radon Concentrations as a Current Public Health Challenge.Environment & health (Washington, D.C.) · 2025Review
- Changing smoking habits and the occurrence of lung cancer in Sweden-a population analysis.European journal of public health · 2024Article
- Lung cancer mortality attributable to residential radon: a systematic scoping review.Journal of exposure science & environmental epidemiology · 2023Article
- National Radon Action Plans in Europe and Need of Effectiveness Indicators: An Overview of HERCA Activities.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Evaluation of natural radioactivity levels and potential radiological hazards of common building materials utilized in Mediterranean region, Turkey.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2022Article
- Economic valuation of health benefits from using geologic data to communicate radon risk potential.Environmental health : a global access science source · 2020Article
- Article
- Quantitative health impact of indoor radon in France.Radiation and environmental biophysics · 2018Article
- Residential Radon Exposure and Incidence of Childhood Lymphoma in Texas, 1995-2011.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2015Article
- The role of the implementation of policies for the prevention of exposure to Radon in Brazil-a strategy for controlling the risk of developing lung cancer.Ecancermedicalscience · 2015Review
Corrections and comments
- Commented on by
- Commented on by
Authors and funding
3 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
purposeResidential exposure to radon is considered to be the second cause of lung cancer after smoking. The purpose of this study was to estimate the number of lung cancer cases prevented from reducing radon exposure in Swedish dwellings.
methodsMeasurements of indoor radon are available from national studies in 1990 and 2008 with 8992 and 1819 dwellings, considered representative of all Swedish dwellings. These data were used to estimate the distribution of radon in Swedish dwellings. Lung cancer risk was assumed to increase by 16% per 100 becquerels per cubic meter (Bq/m(3)) indoor air radon. Estimates of future and saved cases of lung cancer were performed at both constant and changed lung cancer incidence rates over time.
resultsThe arithmetic mean concentration of radon was 113 Bq/m(3) in 1990 and 90 Bq/m(3) in 2008. Approximately 8% of the population lived in houses with >200 Bq/m(3). The estimated current number of lung cancer cases attributable to previous indoor radon exposure was 591 per year, and the number of future cases attributable to current exposure was 473. If radon levels above 100 Bq/m(3) are lowered to 100 Bq/m(3), 183 cases will be prevented. If levels >200 Bq/m(3) are lowered to 140 Bq/m(3) (mean in the present stratum 100-200 Bq/m(3)), 131 cases per year will be prevented.
conclusionsAlthough estimates are somewhat uncertain, 35-40% of the radon attributed lung cancer cases can be prevented if radon levels >100 Bq/m(3) are lowered to 100 Bq/m(3).
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.