Radon-induced lung cancer deaths may be overestimated due to failure to account for confounding by exposure to diesel engine exhaust in BEIR VI miner studies.

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Published in PLoS One on September 08, 2017

Authors

Xiaodong Cao1, Piers MacNaughton1, Jose Cedeno Laurent1, Joseph G Allen1

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.

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