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Radon and childhood cancers

Lookup NU author(s): Professor Louise Parker, Emeritus Professor Alan Craft

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Abstract

The effective radiation doses received by children living in high radon areas are similar to those which have been associated with an excess risk of malignant disease elsewhere. However, the only cancer known to be associated with radon is lung cancer - a disease which is not a condition of childhood. Thorne and his colleagues have conducted a study which could have demonstrated an excess of childhood malignancy only if the risk associated with radon was very high. The risk to health of high levels of radon in the environment remains uncertain. The United Kingdom Case Control Study of Childhood Cancers, under the chairmanship of Sir Richard Doll, is assessing risk from many factors including measured radon exposure and it is with great interest that we await the results.


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Author(s): Parker, L., Craft, A. W.

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: European Journal of Cancer

Year: 1996

Volume: 32

Issue: 2

Pages: 201-204

Print publication date: 01/02/1996

ISSN (print): 0959-8049

ISSN (electronic): 1879-0852

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0959-8049(96)00021-4

DOI: 10.1016/0959-8049(96)00021-4

PubMed id: 8664027


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