[A discussion around Cohen's ecological research on the relationship between the radon content in dwellings and lung cancer mortality].
B. L. Cohen showed that lung cancer lethality in U.S. sharply contradicts linear no-threshold (LNT) dependence on lung dose. This conclusion undermines established theory and practice for estimation of the irradiation remote risk; therefore, an unusual discussion has risen. Cohen's opponents (LNT adherents) said that he substituted the mean risk in a county for the individual risk that resulted in inadmissible bias of results. However, his critics' conclusions contradict many results found by Cohen and investigations by other authors.
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State Research Center of Russia, Institute of Biophysics, Moscow, Russia. msavkin@rcibph.dol.ru
D000396:Air Pollutants, Radioactive / Q000009:adverse effects*; D016902:Air Pollution, Indoor / Q000009:adverse effects*; D004463:Ecology; D006798:Housing; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000209:etiology / Q000401:mortality*; D009381:Neoplasms, Radiation-Induced / Q000209:etiology / Q000401:mortality*; D011886:Radon / Q000009:adverse effects*; D012106:Research; D012307:Risk Factors; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology
D000396:Air Pollutants, Radioactive; D011886:Radon