ArticleScientific reports2021
Younger North Americans are exposed to more radon gas due to occupancy biases within the residential built environment.
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- Rural communities experience higher radon exposure versus urban areas, potentially due to drilled groundwater well annuli acting as unintended radon gas migration conduits.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Profound DNA methylomic differences between single- and multi-fraction alpha irradiations of lung fibroblasts.Clinical epigenetics · 2023Article
- Geologic, seasonal, and atmospheric predictors of indoor home radon values.Environmental research, health : ERH · 2023Article
- Consequences of changing Canadian activity patterns since the COVID-19 pandemic include increased residential radon gas exposure for younger people.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- When citizen science meets radon building diagnosis: Synthesis of a French pilot project developed in the framework of the European RadoNorm research project.Open research Europe · 2023Article
- Radon exposure: a major cause of lung cancer in nonsmokers.Jornal brasileiro de pneumologia : publicacao oficial da Sociedade Brasileira de Pneumologia e Tisilogia · 2023Review
- Characterizing occupational radon exposure greater than 100 Bq/mScientific reports · 2022Article
- Social factors and behavioural reactions to radon test outcomes underlie differences in radiation exposure dose, independent of household radon level.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
- The Role of Mitochondrial miRNAs in the Development of Radon-Induced Lung Cancer.Biomedicines · 2022Review
- Chromatin and the Cellular Response to Particle Radiation-Induced Oxidative and Clustered DNA Damage.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2022Review
- Rising Canadian and falling Swedish radon gas exposure as a consequence of 20th to 21st century residential build practices.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- The efficacy of public health information for encouraging radon gas awareness and testing varies by audience age, sex and profession.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Averted lung cancer deaths due to reductions in cigarette smoking in the United States, 1970-2022.CA: a cancer journal for cliniciansArticle
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Abstract
Residential buildings can concentrate radioactive radon gas, exposing occupants to particle radiation that increases lung cancer risk. This has worsened over time in North America, with newer residences containing greater radon. Using data from 18,971 Canadian households, we calculated annual particle radiation dose rates due to long term residential radon exposure, and examined this as a function of occupant demographics. The current particle radiation dose rate to lungs from residential radon in Canada is 4.08 mSv/y from 108.2 Bq/m
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