Mortality from cancer (other than lung) and radon exposure in German uranium miners, 1946–2013

摘要

Radon is an established risk factor for lung cancer. Less clear is whether radon can causecancers other than lung cancer. Due to the several to many times lower organ doses fororgans other than the lung, the radon-related risks - if any - are expected to be much lowerthan the effect of radon on lung cancer. Therefore, large study populations with a widerange of exposures and long observation periods are required to investigate and to provideevidence for such associations. Based on the current follow-up period (1946–2013) of theGerman uranium miner cohort study (n=58,974 men) the association between mortalityfrom cancers other than lung cancer and cumulative exposure to radon and its progeny(mean=280, median=33, max=3224 WLM) was investigated.