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ArticleCancer causes & control : CCC2015

The assumption of radon-induced cancer risk.

Krzysztof W Fornalski, Rod Adams, Wade Allison, Leslie E Corrice, Jerry M Cuttler, Chris Davey, Ludwik Dobrzyński, Vincent J Esposito, Ludwig E Feinendegen, Leo S Gomez and 7 more

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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 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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5citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from 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.

2 · The registry

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.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Article
  3. An Investigation into Indoor Radon Concentrations in Certified Passive House Homes.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020
    Article
  4. Multiple Stressor Effects of Radon and Phthalates in Children: Background Information and Future Research.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020
    Review
  5. Analysis of Indoor Radon Data Using Bayesian, Random Binning, and Maximum Entropy Methods.Dose-response : a publication of International Hormesis Society
    Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

17 authors.

Krzysztof W FornalskiPGE EJ 1 Sp. z o.o., ul. Mokotowska 49, 00-542, Warsaw, Poland. krzysztof.fornalski@gmail.com.
Rod AdamsAtomic Insights LLC, New York, NY, USA.
Wade AllisonUniversity of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Leslie E Corrice, New York, NY, USA.
Jerry M CuttlerCuttler & Associates, Vaughan, ON, Canada.
Chris DaveyKing Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia.
Ludwik DobrzyńskiNational Centre for Nuclear Research (NCBJ), Otwock-Swierk, Poland.
Vincent J EspositoUniversity of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Ludwig E FeinendegenHeinrich-Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany.
Leo S GomezLeo S. Gomez Consulting, Albuquerque, NM, USA.
Patricia LewisFree Enterprise Radon Health Mine, Boulder, MT, USA.
Jeffrey MahnSandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, USA.
Mark L MillerSandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, USA.
Charles W PenningtonExecutive Nuclear Energy Consultant, Alpharetta, Georgia, USA.
Bill Sacks, Green Valley, AZ, USA.
Shizuyo SutouShujitsu University, Okayama, Japan.
James S WelshLoyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine, Maywood, IL, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Air Pollutants, RadioactiveAir Pollution, IndoorHumansLung NeoplasmsRadonAir Pollutants, RadioactiveRadon

Identifiers

PMID26223888

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Registered trials

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