Lifetime excess absolute risk for lung cancer due to exposure to radon: results of the pooled uranium miners cohort study PUMA

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00411-023-01049-w" target="_blank" >10.1007/s00411-023-01049-w</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Lifetime excess absolute risk for lung cancer due to exposure to radon: results of the pooled uranium miners cohort study PUMA

Original language description

The Pooled Uranium Miners Analysis (PUMA) study is the largest uranium miners cohort with 119,709 miners, 4.3 million person-years at risk and 7754 lung cancer deaths. Excess relative rate (ERR) estimates for lung cancer mortality per unit of cumulative exposure to radon progeny in working level months (WLM) based on the PUMA study have been reported. The ERR/WLM was modified by attained age, time since exposure or age at exposure, and exposure rate. This pattern was found for the full PUMA cohort and the 1960 + sub-cohort, i.e., miners hired in 1960 or later with chronic low radon exposures and exposure rates. The aim of the present paper is to calculate the lifetime excess absolute risk (LEAR) of lung cancer mortality per WLM using the PUMA risk models, as well as risk models derived in previously published smaller uranium miner studies, some of which are included in PUMA. The same methods were applied for all risk models, i.e., relative risk projection up to <95 years of age, an exposure scenario of 2 WLM per year from age 18–64 years, and baseline mortality rates representing a mixed Euro-American-Asian population. Depending upon the choice of model, the estimated LEAR per WLM are 5.38×10−4 or 5.57×10−4 in the full PUMA cohort and 7.50×10−4 or 7.66×10−4 in the PUMA 1960 + subcohort, respectively. The LEAR per WLM estimates derived from risk models reported for previously published uranium miners studies range from 2.5×10−4 to 9.2×10−4. PUMA strengthens knowledge on the radon-related lung cancer LEAR, a useful way to translate models for policy purposes.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30304 - Public and environmental health

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Radiation and Environmental Biophysics

ISSN

0301-634X

e-ISSN

1432-2099

Volume of the periodical

63

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

10

Pages from-to

7-16

UT code for WoS article

001135553400001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85181447584