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Journal of Thoracic Oncology

Volume 11, Issue 9, September 2016, Pages 1384-1386
Journal of Thoracic Oncology

Commentary
Residential Radon: The Neglected Risk Factor in Lung Cancer Risk Scores

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Abstract

There are some published scores to estimate lung cancer risk of mortality or incidence. Nevertheless, no score has included residential radon as a variable to be considered when estimating lung cancer risk. In this commentary we discuss the importance of including residential radon as a factor to be taken into account when calculating lung cancer risk.

Keywords

Lung neoplasms
Risk scores
Screening
Residential radon

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