College of MedicineUniversity of Iowa
The Iowa Radon Lung
Cancer Study was a large-scale
epidemiology study initiated in 1993 and funded by the National Institute of
Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS). The study assessed the risk posed
by residential radon exposure. The 5-year study was performed in Iowa and the
participants were women throughout Iowa who lived in their current home for at
least 20 years. Over a thousand Iowa women took part in the study.
Four hundred and thirteen of the participants were women who had developed lung
cancer, the remaining 614 participants were controls who did not have lung
cancer. The study was limited to women, because they historically tend to
spend more time at home and they have less occupational exposure to other lung
carcinogens.
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