Association between exposures to radon and γ-ray radiation and histologic type of lung cancer in Eldorado uranium mining and milling workers from Canada.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The authors assessed the association between radon decay products (RDP) exposure and histologic types of incident lung cancer in a cohort of 16,752 (91.6% male) Eldorado uranium workers who were first employed from 1932 to 1980 and were followed through 1969-1999.

Methods

Substantially revised identifying information and RDP exposures were obtained on workers from the Port Radium and Beaverlodge uranium mines and from the Port Hope radium and uranium refinery and processing facility in Canada. Poisson regression was conducted using the National Research Council's Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation (BEIR) VI-type models to estimate the risks of lung cancer by histologic type from RDP exposures and γ-ray doses.

Results

Lung cancer incidence was signific

SUBMITTER: Zablotska LB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9545258 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature