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BACKGROUND: Radiation exposure from medical procedures has been rapidly increasing. We purposed to estimate the fraction of cancer incidence and mortality attributed to diagnostic medical radiation exposure in Korea.
METHODS: Using...
BACKGROUND: Residential radon exposure is known to be an important risk factor for the development of lung cancer. The objective of this study was to calculate the disease burden of...
BACKGROUND: Lung cancer in never smokers (LCINS) differs etiologically and clinically from lung cancer attributed to smoking. After smoking, radon exposure is the second leading cause and the primary risk...
BACKGROUND: This study aimed to identify the gender-specific characteristics of the surrogate measures of insulin resistance and to establish valid cut-off values for metabolic abnormalities in a representative sample in...