Published January 1991 | Version v1
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Indoor radon and lung cancers: myth or reality?

Description

Neither the data presently available on deaths from broncho-pulmonary carcinomas in France at a time when tobacco consumption was much lower than nowadays, nor the present data relative to the ''departments'' where indoor radon levels are the highest justify the importance given now to the problem. The risk factors set forth in ICRP publication 50 (1986) seem very highly overestimated. (author)

Availability note (English)

Available from The British Library Document Supply Centre, Boston Spa, Wetherby, West Yorks. LS23 7BQ.

Additional details

Publishing Information

Imprint Pagination
11 p.
Report number
EA-OA-Trans--4221

INIS

Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Country of Input or Organization
United Kingdom
INIS RN
24026534
Subject category
S61: RADIATION PROTECTION AND DOSIMETRY;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Non-conventional Literature, Translation
Descriptors DEI
FRANCE; HEALTH HAZARDS; HOUSES; LUNGS; MAN; MORTALITY; NEOPLASMS; RADON; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOBACCO SMOKES
Descriptors DEC
AEROSOLS; ANIMALS; BODY; BUILDINGS; COLLOIDS; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DISEASES; DISPERSIONS; ELEMENTS; EUROPE; HAZARDS; MAMMALS; NONMETALS; ORGANS; PRIMATES; RARE GASES; RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS; RESIDUES; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; SMOKES; SOLS; VERTEBRATES

Optional Information

Notes
Translated from Radioprotection, GEDIM, v. 24(4) p. 321-328.