New findings from L. Walsh and co-authors describe advances in solid cancer.

A new study, 'Radon and the risk of cancer mortality-internal poisson models for the german uranium miners cohort,' is now available. According to recent research from Germany, "Uranium mining occurred between 1946 and 1990 at the former Wismut mining company in East Germany. 58,987 male former employees form the largest single uranium miners cohort, which has been followed up for causes of mortality occurring from the beginning of 1946 to the end of 2003. The purpose of this paper is to present the radon exposure related cancer mortality risk based on 20,920 deaths, 2 million person-years, and 6,373 cancers."

"The latter include 3,016 lung cancers and 3,053 extrapulmonary …