Indoor Radon Exposure, Natural Radioactivity and Lung Cancer Risk
This community investigates how radon gas and other naturally occurring radioactive materials accumulate in indoor environments, soil, and water, and evaluates the resulting health risks, particularly the link to lung cancer.
The research focuses on measuring radon concentrations, exhalation rates, and radon progeny in residential buildings, soil samples, and groundwater. A significant portion of the work involves assessing natural radioactivity from uranium, thorium, and radium in environmental media such as drinking water, sediments, and food products. The primary objective is to calculate effective doses and radiological hazards to quantify cancer risk, with a specific emphasis on lung cancer in populations exposed to indoor air pollution. Methods include risk assessment models, activity concentration analysis, and the study of radon-thoron interactions in both urban and rural settings.
The largest share of this community's output is found in radon research, accounting for 57.5% of all radon-related papers tracked, and 11,380 papers within this group. It also represents 45.8% of polonium research and 36.3% of radium research.
The community comprises 21,637 papers, with the highest publication volume in Radiation Protection Dosimetry, Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry, and Journal of Environmental Radioactivity.
Recent work continues to focus on the health risk assessment of natural radionuclides in specific environmental contexts, such as river sediments and food products, alongside broader reviews of indoor air quality in critical environments.
Papers behind this description
- Lung cancer in patients who have never smoked — an emerging disease — Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology, 2024 — doi:10.1038/s41571-023-00844-0
- Critical review on emerging health effects associated with the indoor air quality and its sustainable management — The Science of The Total Environment, 2023 — doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.162163
- Indoor air quality guidelines from across the world: An appraisal considering energy saving, health, productivity, and comfort — Environment International, 2023 — doi:10.1016/j.envint.2023.108127
- Breathing in danger: Understanding the multifaceted impact of air pollution on health impacts — Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 2024 — doi:10.1016/j.ecoenv.2024.116532
- Epidemiology of lung cancer — Współczesna Onkologia, 2021 — doi:10.5114/wo.2021.103829
- LSTM-Autoencoder-Based Anomaly Detection for Indoor Air Quality Time-Series Data — IEEE Sensors Journal, 2023 — doi:10.1109/jsen.2022.3230361
- Health Effects of Ionizing Radiation on the Human Body — Medicina, 2024 — doi:10.3390/medicina60040653
- Global, regional, and national burden of tracheal, bronchus, and lung cancer and its risk factors from 1990 to 2021: findings from the global burden of disease study 2021 — EClinicalMedicine, 2024 — doi:10.1016/j.eclinm.2024.102804
- Predicting urban residents' climate change risk perceptions: The role of heat and green space exposure indicators in Harbin's residential environment — Sustainable Cities and Society, 2025 — doi:10.1016/j.scs.2025.106882
- Integrating Artificial Intelligence and the Internet of Things in Cultural Heritage Preservation: A Systematic Review of Risk Management and Environmental Monitoring Strategies — Buildings, 2024 — doi:10.3390/buildings14123979
- Cancer mortality after low dose exposure to ionising radiation in workers in France, the United Kingdom, and the United States (INWORKS): cohort study — BMJ, 2023 — doi:10.1136/bmj-2022-074520
- Indoor Air Pollution, Related Human Diseases, and Recent Trends in the Control and Improvement of Indoor Air Quality — International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2020 — doi:10.3390/ijerph17082927
- Lung Cancer in Nonsmoking Individuals — JAMA, 2025 — doi:10.1001/jama.2025.17695
- Effects of climate change on river and groundwater nutrient inputs to the coastal ocean — Communications Earth & Environment, 2025 — doi:10.1038/s43247-025-02594-6
- Health Risk Assessment and Statistical Analysis of Natural Radionuclides in Sediments of Zab River, Iraq — Environmental Forensics, 2025 — doi:10.1080/15275922.2025.2555807
- Comprehensive assessment of natural radionuclides and heavy metal contamination in imported breakfast cereals consumed in Kurdistan region of Iraq — Journal of Food Composition and Analysis, 2025 — doi:10.1016/j.jfca.2025.108466
- Indoor Air Quality in Critical Indoor Environments: A Review Paper — Water Air & Soil Pollution, 2025 — doi:10.1007/s11270-025-08512-y
- The relative contribution of close-proximity contacts, shared classroom exposure and indoor air quality to respiratory virus transmission in schools — Nature Communications, 2025 — doi:10.1038/s41467-025-66719-3