Deaths From Lung Cancer Could Be Reduced By Better Policies To Control Indoor Radon, Experts Urge

Thursday, January 8, 2009 - 22:35 in Health & Medicine

About 1,100 people each year die in the UK from lung cancer related to indoor radon, but current government protection policies focus mainly on the small number of homes with high radon levels and neglect the 95 percent of radon-related deaths caused by lower levels of radon, according to a study.

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