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Radon risk reassessed

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  1. Section of Epidemiology, Institute of Cancer Research, Belmont, Surrey, SM2 5NG, UK

    Julian Peto

  2. Imperial Cancer Research Fund Unit, University of Oxford, Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, 0X2 6HE, UK

    Sarah Darby

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Peto, J., Darby, S. Radon risk reassessed. Nature 368, 97–98 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1038/368097a0

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