Radon and Mysterious Lung Cancer
Lung cancer is always a disturbing diagnosis. For a patient who has never smoked, worked with asbestos or knowingly come in contact with radioactive material, such a diagnosis is not only disturbing, but perplexing as well.
How can you contract lung cancer if you’ve avoided all the major risks?
Exposure to radon gas could do it. According to Statistics Canada, lung cancer caused by exposure to radon gas killed 1,589 Canadians in 1997.
Source: cbc.ca
Additional Info on Radon and How to Protect Yourself:
1. Canadian Centre for Occupational Health & Safety: What is Radon?
2. Natural Resources Canada: Radiation Geophysics - Radon
3. Health Canada: Radon
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