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Risk factors for lung cancer in Iowa women: implications for preventionJohn S Neuberger
Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, University of Kansas School of Medicine, Mail Stop 1008, 3901 Rainbow Boulevard, Kansas City, 66160, USA
Cancer Detect Prev 30:158-67. 2006..We were particularly interested in stratifying risk factors by smoking status. Relatively little risk factor information is available for Midwestern rural women...
Occupational and environmental causes of lung cancerR William Field
Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, Department of Epidemiology, College of Public Health, University of Iowa, 105 River Street, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
Clin Chest Med 33:681-703. 2012..Supplementary new information, with a focus on analytic epidemiologic studies that has become available since IARC's most recent evaluation, are also discussed...
The Iowa radon lung cancer study--phase I: Residential radon gas exposure and lung cancerR W Field
College of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, University of Iowa, Iowa City 52242, USA
Sci Total Environ 272:67-72. 2001..The risk estimates obtained in this study indicate that cumulative radon exposure presents an important environmental health hazard...- An overview of the North American residential radon and lung cancer case-control studiesR William Field
Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, Department of Epidemiology, College of Public Health, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, USA
J Toxicol Environ Health A 69:599-631. 2006..Eleven WLM(5-19) is approximately equivalent to an average residential radon exposure of 4 pCi/L for 15 yr, assuming a 70% home occupancy... - Three Mile Island epidemiologic radiation dose assessment revisited: 25 years after the accidentR William Field
Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, Department of Epidemiology, College of Public Health, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
Radiat Prot Dosimetry 113:214-7. 2005.... - Lung cancer histologic type in the surveillance, epidemiology, and end results registry versus independent reviewR W Field
Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, College of Public Health, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
J Natl Cancer Inst 96:1105-7. 2004..Thus, the histologic type obtained by the Iowa Cancer Registry is reasonably reliable, but independent slide review is needed for precise histologic typing of lung cancer... - Residential radon exposure and lung cancer: variation in risk estimates using alternative exposure scenariosR William Field
Department of Epidemiology, College of Public Health, University of Iowa, Iowa City 52242, USA
J Expo Anal Environ Epidemiol 12:197-203. 2002..The findings indicate that the power of an epidemiologic study to detect an excess risk from residential radon exposure is enhanced by linking spatially disparate radon concentrations with the subject's retrospective mobility... - Exposure to residential radon causes lung cancer. For the propositionR William Field
University of Iowa, College of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, USA
Med Phys 30:485-6. 2003 - A review of residential radon case-control epidemiologic studies performed in the United StatesR W Field
College of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, USA
Rev Environ Health 16:151-67. 2001..S. studies, along with extrapolations from radon-exposed underground miners, support the conclusion that after cigarette smoking, prolonged residential radon exposure is the second leading cause of lung cancer in the general population... - Room model based Monte Carlo simulation study of the relationship between the airborne dose rate and the surface-deposited radon progenyKainan Sun
Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, Department of Biostatistics, College of Public Health, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
Health Phys 98:29-36. 2010..14 (95% CI 1.03-1.27) and 1.13 (95% CI 1.05-1.22) in the mean dose rates were found for large room sizes relative to small room sizes in the different dose models... - Field investigation of surface-deposited radon progeny as a possible predictor of the airborne radon progeny dose rateKainan Sun
Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, Department of Biostatistics, College of Public Health, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
Health Phys 97:132-44. 2009..08-2.79) after adjusting for the radon and radon progeny effects as well as other environmental factors. Fireplace usage was found to significantly increase the mean Pdose to 1.71 (90% CI 1.20-2.45) after adjusting for other factors... - Iowa radon leukaemia study: a hierarchical population risk model for spatially correlated exposure measured with errorBrian J Smith
Department of Biostatistics, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242 1009, U S A
Stat Med 26:4619-42. 2007..91 (0.78-1.03), 1.01 (0.92-1.12), 1.06 (0.96-1.16), and 1.12 (0.98-1.27), respectively... - Prevalence of beryllium sensitization among Department of Defense conventional munitions workers at low risk for exposureMarek A Mikulski
Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, College of Public Health, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, USA
J Occup Environ Med 53:258-65. 2011..To estimate the prevalence of beryllium sensitization among former and current Department of Defense workers from a conventional munitions facility... - Blind testing of commercially available short-term radon detectorsKainan Sun
Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, Department of Biostatistics, College of Public Health, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
Health Phys 94:548-57. 2008..Nonetheless, the findings suggest the need for improved vigilance to assure that the public can rely on commercially available radon detectors to make an informed decision whether or not to perform additional testing or to mitigate... - Variation in yearly residential radon concentrations in the upper midwestZugui Zhang
Department of Biostatistics, College of Public Health, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
Health Phys 93:288-97. 2007.... - Field comparison of commercially available short-term radon detectorsKainan Sun
College of Public Health, 104 IREH, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
Health Phys 91:221-6. 2006..Nonetheless, the findings suggest that additional double-blind testing of commercially available radon detectors under actual field conditions is warranted... - Cigarette smoking and cancer risk: modeling total exposure and intensityJay H Lubin
Biostatistics Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA
Am J Epidemiol 166:479-89. 2007..The intensity effects were statistically homogeneous, indicating that after accounting for risk from total pack-years, intensity patterns were comparable across the diverse cancer sites... - Occupation and lung cancer in nonsmokersJohn S Neuberger
Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, University of Kansas School of Medicine, Kansas City, Kansas 66160, USA
Rev Environ Health 18:251-67. 2003..Further research on occupational causes of lung cancer in nonsmokers should be given high priority... - Radon, secondhand smoke, glutathione-S-transferase M1 and lung cancer among womenMatthew R Bonner
Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, US Department of Health and Human Services, Rockville, MD, USA
Int J Cancer 119:1462-7. 2006..Additionally, these findings support the hypothesis that radon and SHS promote neoplasia through shared elements of a common pathway... - A combined analysis of North American case-control studies of residential radon and lung cancerDaniel Krewski
Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, McLaughlin Centre for Population Health Risk Assessment, Institute of Population Health, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
J Toxicol Environ Health A 69:533-97. 2006..Collectively, these results provide direct evidence of an association between residential radon and lung cancer risk, a finding predicted by extrapolation of results from occupational studies of radon-exposed underground miners... - Residential radon and risk of lung cancer: a combined analysis of 7 North American case-control studiesDaniel Krewski
McLaughlin Centre for Population Health Risk Assessment, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Epidemiology 16:137-45. 2005..Residential exposure to radon is at much lower levels, and the risk of lung cancer with residential exposure is less clear. We conducted a systematic analysis of pooled data from all North American residential radon studies... - Dosimetric challenges for residential radon epidemiologyDaniel J Steck
Physics Department, St John s University, Collegeville, Minnesota 56321, USA
J Toxicol Environ Health A 69:655-64. 2006..New technologies that use surface-deposited and implanted radon progeny activities make more accurate dose estimates available for future epidemiologic studies...
Research Grants
- IOWA AND MISSOURI RADON LUNG CANCER STUDIESR Field; Fiscal Year: 2006..The pooling of data between two large-scale epidemiologic studies from a similar geographic area, Iowa and Missouri, will allow us to increase sample size and statistical power. ..
- IOWA AND MISSOURI RADON LUNG CANCER STUDIESR Field; Fiscal Year: 2007..The pooling of data between two large-scale epidemiologic studies from a similar geographic area, Iowa and Missouri, will allow us to increase sample size and statistical power. ..