A combined analysis of North American case-control studies of residential radon and lung cancer.

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Published in J Toxicol Environ Health A on April 01, 2006

Authors

Daniel Krewski1, Jay H Lubin, Jan M Zielinski, Michael Alavanja, Vanessa S Catalan, R William Field, Judith B Klotz, Ernest G Létourneau, Charles F Lynch, Joseph L Lyon, Dale P Sandler, Janet B Schoenberg, Daniel J Steck, Jan A Stolwijk, Clarice Weinberg, Homer B Wilcox

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, McLaughlin Centre for Population Health Risk Assessment, Institute of Population Health, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. dkrewski@uottawa.ca

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