ArticleRadiation and environmental biophysics2024
Lifetime excess absolute risk for lung cancer due to exposure to radon: results of the pooled uranium miners cohort study PUMA.
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- Updated Knowledge on Radon Exposure: Quantification Methods, Health Effects, and Molecular Mechanisms.Environment & health (Washington, D.C.) · 2026Review
- Exposure and impact: highlights from the second scientific conference and recent activities of the International Society of Radiation Epidemiology and Dosimetry (ISoRED).Journal of radiological protection : official journal of the Society for Radiological Protection · 2026Article
- Uranium mining and lung cancer: a legacy of the nuclear age.Carcinogenesis · 2025Review
- Radiation effects research foundation-a view to the future.Carcinogenesis · 2025Article
- Exposure to radon progeny and cancer mortality, excluding lung cancer, in the cohort of Newfoundland Fluorspar Miners between 1950 and 2016.Radiation and environmental biophysics · 2025Article
- Advancements in lung cancer: molecular insights, innovative therapies, and future prospects.Medical oncology (Northwood, London, England) · 2025Review
- Development of a High-Resolution Indoor Radon Map Using a New Machine Learning-Based Probabilistic Model and German Radon Survey Data.Environmental health perspectives · 2024Article
- Inverse dose protraction effects of high-LET radiation: Evidence and significance.Mutation research. Reviews in mutation researchReview
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Abstract
The Pooled Uranium Miners Analysis (PUMA) study is the largest uranium miners cohort with 119,709 miners, 4.3 million person-years at risk and 7754 lung cancer deaths. Excess relative rate (ERR) estimates for lung cancer mortality per unit of cumulative exposure to radon progeny in working level months (WLM) based on the PUMA study have been reported. The ERR/WLM was modified by attained age, time since exposure or age at exposure, and exposure rate. This pattern was found for the full PUMA cohort and the 1960 + sub-cohort, i.e., miners hired in 1960 or later with chronic low radon exposures and exposure rates. The aim of the present paper is to calculate the lifetime excess absolute risk (LEAR) of lung cancer mortality per WLM using the PUMA risk models, as well as risk models derived in previously published smaller uranium miner studies, some of which are included in PUMA. The same methods were applied for all risk models, i.e., relative risk projection up to <95 years of age, an exposure scenario of 2 WLM per year from age 18-64 years, and baseline mortality rates representing a mixed Euro-American-Asian population. Depending upon the choice of model, the estimated LEAR per WLM are 5.38 × 10
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