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Radon gas from the ground is the second biggest cause of lung cancer. Testing every home at sale and paying for fixes in high-radon areas would prevent thousands of cases.
Radon gas from the ground is the second biggest cause of lung cancer, yet testing is voluntary and rare, so this idea mandates radon testing when homes are sold in high-radon zones and subsidises mitigation. Point-of-sale mandates already work for energy efficiency certificates, and mitigation is cheap and effective. The aim is to halve the proportion of homes above the action level in high-radon areas within ten years, evaluated by measured indoor radon distributions and modelled lung cancers averted. The test is adoption in one region with radon levels and mitigation rates compared against controls. Speculative in maturity, it addresses the bottleneck Prevention we already have is not deployed and links to NSCLC.
Shares Proportion and number of cancer cases and deaths attributable to potentially modifiable risk factors in the United States, Cancer prevention roadmap: tobacco control and vaccines → biomarker-guided chemoprevention → interception in carriers, Prevention we already have is not deployed, Non-small-cell lung cancer.
Shares Proportion and number of cancer cases and deaths attributable to potentially modifiable risk factors in the United States, Cancer prevention roadmap: tobacco control and vaccines → biomarker-guided chemoprevention → interception in carriers, Prevention we already have is not deployed.
Shares Proportion and number of cancer cases and deaths attributable to potentially modifiable risk factors in the United States, Cancer prevention roadmap: tobacco control and vaccines → biomarker-guided chemoprevention → interception in carriers, Prevention we already have is not deployed.
Shares Proportion and number of cancer cases and deaths attributable to potentially modifiable risk factors in the United States, Cancer prevention roadmap: tobacco control and vaccines → biomarker-guided chemoprevention → interception in carriers, Prevention we already have is not deployed.
Shares Proportion and number of cancer cases and deaths attributable to potentially modifiable risk factors in the United States, Prevention we already have is not deployed.
Shares Proportion and number of cancer cases and deaths attributable to potentially modifiable risk factors in the United States, Prevention we already have is not deployed.
Shares Proportion and number of cancer cases and deaths attributable to potentially modifiable risk factors in the United States, Cancer prevention roadmap: tobacco control and vaccines → biomarker-guided chemoprevention → interception in carriers, Prevention we already have is not deployed.
Shares Proportion and number of cancer cases and deaths attributable to potentially modifiable risk factors in the United States, Cancer prevention roadmap: tobacco control and vaccines → biomarker-guided chemoprevention → interception in carriers, Prevention we already have is not deployed.