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Health effects of exposure to radon : time for reassessment?

Title: Health effects of exposure to radon : time for reassessment? / Committee on Health Effects of Exposure to Radon (BEIR VI), Board on Radiation Effects Research, Commission on Life Sciences, National Research Council.
Publication: Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1994.

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Additional Authors

National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Health Effects of Exposure to Radon.

Description

xvii, 94 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

BEIR ; 6

Uniform Title

BEIR (Series) ; 6.

Subject

Note

"B-453"--T.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 75-91).

Contents

Radiation biology and carcinogenesis -- Range and track structure of α particles emitted by radon progeny -- Radiation biology of α-particle irradiation -- Cell lethality -- Mutation in cultured cells -- Oncogenic transformation in vitro -- Comparison of effects in vivo and in vitro -- Carcinogenesis in laboratory animals -- RBE versus LET -- Dose-rate effects and implications for risk estimates -- Mechanisms of carcinogenesis -- Markers of exposure -- Exposure-dose relations -- Status of studies -- Epidemiologic investigations -- Studies of miners -- Cohorts of miners -- Lung cancer in pooled analysis of 11 cohorts -- Assessment of uncertainty in lifetime risk estimates -- Nonrespiratory cancers -- Nonmalignant respiratory diseases -- Studies of lung cancer in the general environment -- Case-control studies -- Status -- Problems and limitations -- Ecologic studies -- Status -- Problems and limitations -- Radon-induced cancers other than lung cancer -- Studies of miners -- Studies of lung cancer in the general environment.

Call Number

JSE 95-2124

ISBN

0309050871

LCCN

94066478

OCLC

30565493

Title

Health effects of exposure to radon : time for reassessment? / Committee on Health Effects of Exposure to Radon (BEIR VI), Board on Radiation Effects Research, Commission on Life Sciences, National Research Council.

Imprint

Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1994.

Series

BEIR ; 6

BEIR (Series) ; 6.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 75-91).

Added Author

National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Health Effects of Exposure to Radon.

Research Call Number

JSE 95-2124

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