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Indoor radon and lung cancer risk in Osijek

Although the studies of radon exposure have established that Rn decay products are a cause of lung cancer among miners, the lung cancer risk to the general population from indoor radon remains unclear. Our investigation of the indoor radon influence on lung cancer incidence was carried out for a sample of 200 patients from the town Osijek. Radon concentration was measured in homes of the patients as well as for a control group. An ecologic method was applied by using the town map with square fields 1x1 km^2 and the town was divided into 24 fields. For indoor radon level in the fields and belonging number of the lung cancer incidences, a positive correlation coefficient that was statistically significant, was obtained, and a linear regression equation for lung cancer rate, or lung cancer risk, and radon exposure was determined.

radon exposure; case-control study; ecologic study; lung cancer

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