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Lung cancer from radon: a two-stage model analysis of the WISMUT Cohort, 1955-1998.
Radiation research - 1 Jan 2011
van Dillen Teun, Dekkers Fieke, Bijwaard Harmen, Kreuzer Michaela, Grosche Bernd
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A biologically based two-stage carcinogenesis model is applied to epidemiological data for lung cancer mortality in a large uranium miner cohort of the WISMUT company (Germany). To date, this is the largest uranium miner cohort analyzed by a mechanistic model, comprising 35,084 workers among whom 461 died from lung cancer in the follow-up period 1955-1998. It comprises only workers who were first employed between...
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