It has been previously established that lung cancer could be induced in rats by exposure to radon and radon daughters. Although the oat-cell carcinomas that are common in humans were not found in rats, other histological types of lung carcinomas, especially squamous cell carcinomas and primitive lung adenocarcinomas, were similar to those observed in humans. A dose-effect relationship was estab...

Childhood acute leukaemia (AL) etiology is still largely unknown. The main environmental exposures currently investigated are exposures to pesticides, hydrocarbon, ionizing and non ionizing radiation. The Geocap program investigates potential links between Childhood AL and several environmental exposures, among which domestic exposure to radon. The Geocap approach consists in the comparison of ...

by Jasimuddin U. Ahmed U, Fntil the late 1970s, radon and its daughter products were regarded as radiation health hazards only encountered in the mining and milling of uranium. This notion has dramatically changed as a result of widespread indoor measurements of radon in many parts of the world. Increased radon concentrations in dwellings, for example, have been noted in countries in the temper...

The paper is aimed at different measuring techniques and methods practically used for a classification of buildings in the context of radiation protection requirements. Specific experimental and theoretical diagnostic procedures designed for identification and quantification of indoor radon entry characteristics are proposed and discussed in detail (continuous simultaneous radon concentration m...

The purpose of this contribution is to situate the radon issue within the whole field of radiation protection. There is among health physicists a fairly general consensus that exposure to radon decay products constitutes the largest and most variable contribution to the population exposure. It is therefore ironical that precisely this exposure is the subject of constant disputes with regard to ...

BACKGROUND Underground miners exposed to high levels of radon have an excess risk of lung cancer. Residential exposure to radon is at much lower levels, and the risk of lung cancer with residential exposure is less clear. We conducted a systematic analysis of pooled data from all North American residential radon studies. METHODS The pooling project included original data from 7 North American...

Radon risks derive from exposure of bronchio-epithelial cells to alpha particles. Alpha-particle exposure can result in bystander effects when irradiated cells emit signals resulting in damage to nearby unirradiated bystander cells. Bystander effects can cause downwardly-curving dose-response relations and inverse dose-rate effects. We have extended a quantitative mechanistic model of bystander...

BACKGROUND Indoor radon exposure has been postulated as the second risk factor of lung cancer after tobacco. The objective of this work is to analyze if there exists any effect on p53 immunohistochemical expression mainly due to radon exposure and other risk factors for lung cancer. PATIENTS AND METHODS The tumor samples of a case series of 163 lung cancer cases were analyzed to know the p53 ...

background: separate radon and thoron measurements in soil are very important in assessment of internal exposure due to inhalation of such radioactive gases. materials and methods: in this study, a low cost, small size, passive diffusion chamber has been developed for simple measurement of radon-222 and radon-220(thoron) gases separately in soil. the diffusion chamber consists of two films and ...