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. "Front Matter." Health Effects of Exposure to Radon: BEIR VI. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 1999.
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Analysis of Pooled Data from Different Studies
78
Model Based on Full Data Set
80
Model Based on Exposure-Restricted Data
81
Coherence of Evidence from Miners and from the General Population
84
BEIR VI Risk Assessment for Lung-Cancer in the General Population
85
Introduction
Measures of Risk
91
Relative-Risk Estimates
92
Population-Risk Estimates
93
Sources of Uncertainty
100
Uncertainties in Parameter Estimates Derived from Underground-Miner Data
101
Uncertainties in Specification of the Lung-Cancer Exposure-Response Model and Its Application to Residential Exposure of the General U.S. Population
103
Uncertainty Analysis
104
Comparisons with BEIR IV
110
BEIR IV and BEIR VI Risk Models
Summary and Conclusions
113
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Health Effects of Radon Progeny on Non-Lung-Cancer Outcomes
117
Doses to Organs Other Than Lung
118
Nonmalignant Respiratory Diseases
119
Malignancies Other Than Lung-Cancer
120
Studies of Underground Miners
121
Studies of the General Population
124
Reproductive Outcomes
127
Conclusions
Appendixes
A
Risk Modeling and Uncertainty Analysis
129
B
Comparative Dosimetry
176
C
Tobacco-Smoking and Its Interaction with Radon
224
D
Miner Studies
254
E
Exposures of Miners to Radon Progeny
291
Annex 1: Exposures to Miner Cohorts: Review of Estimates for the Studies
306
Annex 2: Workshop on Uncertainty in Estimating Exposures to Radon Progeny in Studies of Underground Miners
331
