Indoor Radon and Lung Cancer
- 2 March 1989
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 320 (9) , 591-594
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm198903023200911
Abstract
Radon has recently become recognized as a potentially important cause of lung cancer in the general population. This chemically inert gas, which has been linked causally to lung cancer in miners of uranium and other underground minerals, occurs in nature as a decay product of radium-226, the fifth daughter of uranium-238. Although radon concentrations vary widely,1 the uranium-decay series is present in virtually all soil and rock. As radon forms, some atoms leave the soil or rock and enter the surrounding air or water. Because radon is chemically inert and has a half-life of approximately four days in which to . . .Keywords
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