Childhood exposure to radon

Structural Survey

ISSN: 0263-080X

Article publication date: 1 October 2002

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(2002), "Childhood exposure to radon", Structural Survey, Vol. 20 No. 4. https://doi.org/10.1108/ss.2002.11020dab.013

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Emerald Group Publishing Limited

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Childhood exposure to radon

Childhood exposure to radon

Keywords: Children, Radon, Cancer

The National Radiological Protection Board has welcomed research at the University of Leeds which has failed to provide evidence of any link between childhood cancer and exposure to radon in the childrens' homes. NRPB stresses, however, that these latest findings do not affect the proven link between lung cancer in adults and radon.

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