Silent killer: Testing for radon could save lives
Laura Longhurst never has smoked - which made her diagnosis of late-stage lung cancer in November 2006 all the more puzzling.
Her husband, Al, started snooping around the Internet, learned radon can cause lung cancer and decided to test their Sandy home for it.
The radioactive gas was there, he discovered, registering at a level of 3.2 picocuries per liter [pCi/L], just below the Environmental Protection Agency’s threshold of 4 pCi/L for safe indoor air. “I had never heard of it before,” Laura Longhurst said.
The message isn’t new: Get your home tested for radon.
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