ArticleToxics2018
County-Level Radon and Incidence of Female Thyroid Cancer in Iowa, New Jersey, and Wisconsin, USA.
Article in Toxics, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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- Radiation-Related Thyroid Cancer.Endocrine reviews · 2024Review
- Review
- Criterion Validity of Radon Test Values Reported by a Commercial Laboratory versus the Environmental Protection Agency.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Residential radon exposure and cancer.Oncology reviews · 2022Article
- Review
- Increased Thyroid Cancer Incidence in Volcanic Areas: A Role of Increased Heavy Metals in the Environment?International journal of molecular sciences · 2020Review
- Thyroid Cancer Incidence Rates in North Dakota are Associated with Land and Water Use.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Article
- Health Effects of Radon Exposure.Yonsei medical journal · 2019Review
- Role of Emerging Environmental Risk Factors in Thyroid Cancer: A Brief Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Review
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Abstract
backgroundFew studies have investigated the association between radon and thyroid cancer despite the sensitivity of the thyroid gland to radiation. Our goal is to investigate the association between county-level radon and incidence of female thyroid cancer in the US States of Iowa, New Jersey, and Wisconsin.
methodsThyroid cancer incidence data were provided by individual state cancer registries and span 1990-2013. Radon data come from a publicly available third-party database, AirChek, accessed in 2017. We tabulated the percent of radon above four picocuries per liter and the female thyroid cancer incidence rate in each county. Quantile maps were constructed, and an ordinary least-squares regression model was run using Geoda 1.10.0.8 (Chicago, IL, USA).
resultsNo association was observed between county-level radon and incidence of female thyroid cancer in any of the States: New Jersey (β = 0.06, DISCUSSION: In this county-level ecological study across three different States in the US, we did not find an association between elevated radon and thyroid cancer incidence in women. While this ecologic study reports null findings, due to the ecologic fallacy, individual-level studies of this association may still be warranted.
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