Methods to Derive Uncertainty Intervals for Lifetime Risks for Lung Cancer Related to Occupational Radon Exposure.

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Abstract

Lifetime risks are a useful tool in quantifying health risks related to radiation exposure and play an important role in the radiation detriment and, in the case of radon, for radon dose conversion. This study considers the lifetime risk of dying from lung cancer related to occupational radon exposure. For this purpose, in addition to other risk measures, the lifetime excess absolute risk (LEAR) is mainly examined. Uncertainty intervals for such lifetime risk estimates and corresponding statistical methods are rarely presented in the radon literature.Based on previous work on LEAR estimates, the objective of this article is to introduce and discuss novel methods to derive uncertainty intervals for lifetime risk estimates for lung cancer related to occupational radon exposu

SUBMITTER: Sommer M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12646863 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature