Global Estimate of Lung Cancer Mortality Attributable to Residential Radon.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Radon is the second most important cause of lung cancer, ranked by the World Health Organization as the fifth leading cause of mortality in 2010. An updated database of national radon exposures for 66 countries allows the global burden of lung cancer mortality attributable to radon to be estimated.

Objective

Our goal was to estimate the global population attributable burden of lung cancer mortality in 2012 from residential radon.

Methods

Estimates of the population attributable risk (PAR) of lung cancer mortality from radon were determined using the attributable fraction approach, using three models for excess relative risk of lung cancer from radon.

Results

The estimates of the median PAR of lung cancer mortality from residential radon in 2012 for t

SUBMITTER: Gaskin J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6072010 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature