Trends in research on indoor radon exposure and lung cancer in South Korea

Dae Ryong Kang; Dongmug Kang; Kyoung-Bok Min; Changsoo Kim; Sung-Soo Oh; Sang-Baek Koh

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Kang, Kang, Min, Kim, Oh, and Koh: Trends in research on indoor radon exposure and lung cancer in South Korea

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Ann Occup Environ Med 2016;28(1):10.

Published online: 4 February 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s40557-016-0100-9

Trends in research on indoor radon exposure and lung cancer in South Korea

Dae Ryong Kang^1,^*, Dongmug Kang², Kyoung-Bok Min³, Changsoo Kim⁴, Sung-Soo Oh⁵, Sang-Baek Koh^5,⁶

¹Department of Humanities and Social Medicine, Ajou University School of Medicine, Suwon, Korea

²Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Pusan National University, Yangsan Hospital, Yangsan, Korea

³Department of Preventive Medicine, College of Medicine, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

⁴Department of Preventive Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

⁵Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Wonju Severance Christian Hospital, Wonju College of Medicine, Yonsei University, Wonju, Korea

⁶Department of Preventive Medicine and Institute of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Wonju College of Medicine, Yonsei University, Wonju, Korea

^*Correspondence: drkang@ajou.ac.kr ¹Department of Humanities and Social Medicine, Ajou University School of Medicine, Suwon, Korea Full list of author information is available at the end of the article

Received 3 March 2016 Accepted 3 March 2016

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