Childhood cancer mortality and radon concentration in drinking water in North Carolina.

We explored the association between groundwater radon levels and childhood cancer mortality in North Carolina. Using data from two state-wide surveys of public drinking water supplies, counties were ranked according to average groundwater radon concentration. Age and sex-adjusted 1950-79 cancer deat...

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Autores principales: Collman, G. W., Loomis, D. P., Sandler, D. P.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 1991
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1972344/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2021549
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description We explored the association between groundwater radon levels and childhood cancer mortality in North Carolina. Using data from two state-wide surveys of public drinking water supplies, counties were ranked according to average groundwater radon concentration. Age and sex-adjusted 1950-79 cancer death rates among children under age 15 were calculated for counties with high, medium, and low radon levels. Overall cancer mortality was increased in counties with medium and high radon levels. The strongest association was for the leukaemias, but risks were also suggested for other sites. These associations could be due to confounding or other biases, but the findings are consistent with other recent reports.
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spelling pubmed-19723442009-09-10 Childhood cancer mortality and radon concentration in drinking water in North Carolina. Collman, G. W. Loomis, D. P. Sandler, D. P. Br J Cancer Research Article We explored the association between groundwater radon levels and childhood cancer mortality in North Carolina. Using data from two state-wide surveys of public drinking water supplies, counties were ranked according to average groundwater radon concentration. Age and sex-adjusted 1950-79 cancer death rates among children under age 15 were calculated for counties with high, medium, and low radon levels. Overall cancer mortality was increased in counties with medium and high radon levels. The strongest association was for the leukaemias, but risks were also suggested for other sites. These associations could be due to confounding or other biases, but the findings are consistent with other recent reports. Nature Publishing Group 1991-04 /pmc/articles/PMC1972344/ /pubmed/2021549 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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Childhood cancer mortality and radon concentration in drinking water in North Carolina.
title Childhood cancer mortality and radon concentration in drinking water in North Carolina.
title_full Childhood cancer mortality and radon concentration in drinking water in North Carolina.
title_fullStr Childhood cancer mortality and radon concentration in drinking water in North Carolina.
title_full_unstemmed Childhood cancer mortality and radon concentration in drinking water in North Carolina.
title_short Childhood cancer mortality and radon concentration in drinking water in North Carolina.
title_sort childhood cancer mortality and radon concentration in drinking water in north carolina.
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2021549
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