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    STUDIA PHYSICA - Issue no. 1 / 2003  
         
  Article:   A MECHANISTIC MODEL FOR THE ASSESSMENT OF LUNG CANCER RISK INDUCED BY RADON AND ITS PROGENY.

Authors:  W. HOFMANN, C. COSMA. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  The present paper details a mechanistic model for the assessment of lung cancer risk induced by radon and its progeny. This mechanistic model provides risk predictions for low doses of -irradiation, for which the extrapolation of the data for underground miners does not provide accurate assessment of lung cancer risk. This model also estimates the resulting changes in the risk due to different parameter variations. The risk model yields, for different combinations of parameter values, approximately the same results, which are in a remarkably good agreement with the epidemiological data for the Colorado Plateau uranium miners.  
         
     
         
         
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