Environmental radon exposure and breast cancer risk in the Nurses’ Health Study II

BACKGROUND: Radon and its decay products, a source of ionizing radiation, are primarily inhaled and can deliver a radiation dose to breast tissue, where they may continue to decay and emit DNA damage-inducing particles. Few studies have examined the relationship between radon and breast cancer. METH...

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Published in:Environ Health
Main Authors: VoPham, Trang, DuPré, Natalie, Tamimi, Rulla M., James, Peter, Bertrand, Kimberly A., Vieira, Veronica, Laden, Francine, Hart, Jaime E.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: BioMed Central 2017
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5590193/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28882148
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12940-017-0305-6
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