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Effect of age at exposure in 11 underground miners studies by Tomasek, L

“…Eleven underground miners studies evaluated the risk of lung cancer from exposure in underground mines. Nearly 68,000 miners were included in the joint study,…”
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Interaction of radon and smoking among Czech uranium miners by Tomasek, L

“…The study is based on a case-control study nested within a cohort study (11 000 miners and 1074 lung cancers). The controls were individually matched by year…”
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Radon in homes and risk of lung cancer: collaborative analysis of individual data from 13 European case-control studies by Darby, S, Hill, D, Auvinen, A, Barros-Dios, J M, Baysson, H, Bochicchio, F, Deo, H, Falk, R, Forastiere, F, Hakama, M, Heid, I, Kreienbrock, L, Kreuzer, M, Lagarde, F, Mäkeläinen, I, Muirhead, C, Oberaigner, W, Pershagen, G, Ruano-Ravina, A, Ruosteenoja, E, Rosario, A Schaffrath, Tirmarche, M, Tomáscaron;ek, L, Whitley, E, Wichmann, H-E, Doll, R

“…Abstract Objective To determine the risk of lung cancer associated with exposure at home to the radioactive disintegration products of naturally occurring…”
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Mortality among uranium miners in North America and Europe: the Pooled Uranium Miners Analysis (PUMA) by Richardson, D B, Rage, E, Demers, P A, Do, M T, DeBono, N, Fenske, N, Deffner, V, Kreuzer, M, Samet, J, Wiggins, C, Schubauer-Berigan, M K, Kelly-Reif, K, Tomasek, L, Zablotska, L B, Laurier, D

“…The Pooled Uranium Miners Analysis (PUMA) study draws together information from cohorts of uranium miners from Canada, the Czech Republic, France, Germany and…”
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Lung cancer in a Czech cohort exposed to radon in dwellings--50 years of follow-up by Tomasek, L

“…The presented study reports lung cancer mortality in a cohort of 11 842 subjects exposed to high levels of radon covering the period 1961-2010. Exposure…”
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Dosimetric calculations for uranium miners for epidemiological studies by Marsh, J W, Blanchardon, E, Gregoratto, D, Hofmann, W, Karcher, K, Nosske, D, Tomásek, L

“…Epidemiological studies on uranium miners are being carried out to quantify the risk of cancer based on organ dose calculations. Mathematical models have been…”
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Lifetime excess absolute risk for lung cancer due to exposure to radon: results of the pooled uranium miners cohort study PUMA by Kreuzer, M., Sommer, M., Deffner, V., Bertke, S., Demers, P. A., Kelly-Reif, K., Laurier, D., Rage, E., Richardson, D. B., Samet, J. M., Schubauer-Berigan, M. K., Tomasek, L., Wiggins, C., Zablotska, L. B., Fenske, N.

“…The Pooled Uranium Miners Analysis (PUMA) study is the largest uranium miners cohort with 119,709 miners, 4.3 million person-years at risk and 7754 lung cancer…”
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Miner studies and radiological protection against radon by Laurier, D., Marsh, J.W., Rage, E., Tomasek, L.

“…Fundamental estimates of radon-associated health risk have been provided by epidemiological studies of miners. In total, approximately 15 studies have been…”
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A review of exposures to radon, long-lived radionuclides and external gamma at the Czech uranium mine by Marušiaková, M, Gregor, Z, Tomášek, L

“…This paper presents the results of the personal exposure monitoring conducted in the RoŽná uranium mine in the Czech Republic. In this mine, which has been…”
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Content of uranium in urine of uranium miners as a tool for estimation of intakes of long-lived alpha radionuclides by Malátová, I., Be ková, V., Tomášek, L., H lka, J.

“…Uranium in the urine of 10 uranium miners (hewers), 27 members of general population and 11 family members of miners was determined by the High-Resolution…”
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Joint Analysis of Three European Nested Case-control Studies of Lung Cancer among Radon Exposed Miners: Exposure Restricted to Below 300 WLM by Hunter, Nezahat, Muirhead, Colin R, Tomasek, Ladislav, Kreuzer, Michaela, Laurier, Dominique, Leuraud, Klervi, Schnelzer, Maria, Grosche, Bernd, Placek, Vit, Heribanova, Alena, Timarche, Margot

“…ABSTRACTAnalyses of lung cancer risk were carried out using restrictions to nested case-control data on uranium miners in the Czech Republic, France, and…”
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International intercomparison of measuring instruments for radon/thoron gas and radon short-lived daughter products in the NRPI Prague by Jílek, K, Hýža, M, Kotík, L, Thomas, J, Tomášek, L

“…During the 7th European Conference on Protection Against Radon at Home and at Work held in the autumn of 2013 in Prague, the second intercomparison of…”
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Dietary habits and lung cancer risk among non-smoking women by Kubík, A K, Zatloukal, P, Tomášek, L, Pauk, N, Havel, L, Křepela, E, Petruželka, L

“…A case-control study was conducted to investigate the relationship between diet and the risk of lung cancer among women non-smokers and to compare with women…”
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Lung cancer mortality in the European uranium miners cohorts analyzed with a biologically based model taking into account radon measurement error by Heidenreich, W. F., Tomasek, L., Grosche, B., Leuraud, K., Laurier, D.

“…The biologically based two-stage clonal expansion (TSCE) model is used to analyze lung cancer mortality of European miners from the Czech Republic, France, and…”
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Dosimetric models used in the Alpha-Risk project to quantify exposure of uranium miners to radon gas and its progeny by Marsh, J. W., Bessa, Y, Birchall, A., Blanchardon, E., Hofmann, W., Nosske, D., Tomasek, L.

“…The European project Alpha-Risk aims to quantify the cancer and non-cancer risks associated with multiple chronic radiation exposures by epidemiological…”
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Dose conversion of radon exposure according to new epidemiological findings by Tomasek, L., Rogel, A., Laurier, D., Tirmarche, M.

“…In 1993, ICRP-65 recommended that dose conversion of radon exposure should be based on the comparison of detriments between radon exposure and effective dose…”
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Radon and cancers other than lung cancer in underground miners: a collaborative analysis of 11 studies by Darby, S C, Whitley, E, Howe, G R, Hutchings, S J, Kusiak, R A, Lubin, J H, Morrison, H I, Tirmarche, M, Tomásek, L, Radford, E P

“…Exposure to the radioactive gas radon and its progeny (222Rn and its radioactive decay products) has recently been linked to a variety of cancers other than…”
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A case-control study of lifestyle and lung cancer associations by histological types by Kubik, A, Zatloukal, P, Tomasek, L, Dolezal, J, Syllabova, L, Kara, J, Kopecky, P, Plesko, I

“…The objective of the study was to investigate the contribution of dietary factors and physical exercise to the variation in the risk of lung cancer and its…”
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Congenital diaphragmatic hernia: onset of respiratory distress and size of the defect: analysis of the outcome in 104 neonates by Rygl, Michal, Pycha, K, Stranak, Z, Melichar, J, Krofta, L, Tomasek, L, Snajdauf, J

“…The purpose of this study was to evaluate the outcome in neonates with congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) either presenting within the first 24 h of life or…”
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Lung cancer risk among nonsmoking women in relation to diet and physical activity by Kubík, A, Zatloukal, P, Tomásek, L, Pauk, N, Petruzelka, L, Plesko, I

“…To investigate the relationship between diet, physical activity, and the risk of lung cancer among female nonsmokers, and to compare it with female smokers in…”
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