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RADON 2024

9–12 Sept 2024
Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering
Europe/Prague timezone

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Session

Health effects of radon

05
10 Sept 2024, 09:00
room 103 (Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering)

room 103

Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering

Břehová 78/7 115 19 Prague 1 Czech Republic GPS. 50.0910372N, 14.4163028E

Conveners

Health effects of radon: Health effects of radon

  • Marcela Adamová (SÚJB)
  • Francesco Bochicchio (Italian National Institute of Health)

Description

Focused on:
• New findings from epidemiological studies.
Other relevant topics: Lung cancer and other health issues related to long-term radon exposure; epidemiological studies; synergic effects etc.

Presentation materials

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  1. 28. Interaction of radon and smoking on lung cancer risk
    Ladislav Tomášek (SURO)
    10/09/2024, 09:00
    Health effects of radon
    Oral presentation

    The aim of the presentation is an evaluation of interaction of effects of radon and smoking on lung cancer risk. In occupational studies among uranium mines, smoking has not been considered in all original studies in early presentations. This issue was investigated later by nested case-control studies. The present analysis is based on two Czech studies of uranium miners. One cohort study of Dr...

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  2. 5. Lung cancer mortality attributable to residential radon in Germany
    Dr Felix Heinzl (Federal Office for Radiation Protection, Germany)
    10/09/2024, 09:20
    Health effects of radon
    Oral presentation

    Radon is one of the most important risk factors for lung cancer after smoking. An illustrative way of describing the lung cancer risk of residential radon is to give the number of so-called population-attributable lung cancer deaths caused by radon in homes, since this indicator can help policy makers and the public to understand the health impact of radon exposure. In 2006, it was calculated...

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  3. 21. Impact of smoking on radon risk in residential areas
    Dr Terézia Eckertová (FMPH CU in Bratislava)
    10/09/2024, 09:40
    Health effects of radon
    Poster

    Smoking and radiation are among the most important factors influencing the risk of lung cancer, but their interaction is not well understood yet. Without an understanding of their synergistic effect on lung cancer, it is not possible to properly assess the radon risk of the general population, including groups of smokers with different daily cigarette consumption. The interaction between...

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  4. 32. Practical aspects of determining the effective dose from inhalation of radon decay products
    Petr Otáhal (SÚJCHBO, v.v.i.)
    10/09/2024, 09:50
    Methods of measurement for both radon and thoron - devices, metrological aspects
    Oral presentation

    The concentration and size distribution of aerosol particles and ventilation conditions of the inner atmosphere of the different workplaces have a crucial effect on the ratio between the radon activity concentration and the potential alpha energy concentration. The presentation summarizes the main differences in determining the quantities mentioned above using grab sampling, continuous...

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  5. 40. Should we re-evaluate radon risk?
    Peter Bossew
    10/09/2024, 10:40
    Health effects of radon
    Oral presentation

    For some years there has been increasing doubt about the applicability of the Linear-No-Threshold model (LNT) of radiation risk, in particular of radon risk. This concerns exposure below about 100 Bq/m³ long term, for which current epidemiological data do not seem to allow proposing a robust risk model. For exposure caused by higher concentrations, a positive, essentially linear relation seems...

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